Port Aransas, TX

[fiddle mike]

Jill and I went to Port A and heard music.
http://bikerintexas.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/texas-music-orgasm-3/

[bg]

what a fun night.

[Hoser]

One of my favorite places in the world.  I assume that you can no longer ride or drive all the way from Flour Bluff like we did in the 60's?  That was a great way to travel at night.  Hoser

[fiddle mike]

One of my favorite places in the world.  I assume that you can no longer ride or drive all the way from Flour Bluff like we did in the 60's?  That was a great way to travel at night.  Hoser

Packery Channel has been dredged and the Fish Pass is still open on the Gulf side (Laguna side is long-since silted in), so, no, you can't ride on the beach all the way from the Bluff to Port A.
  The city council has been trying to give the Gulf side beaches to developers,  a mere hint of the depths of their corruption.

JFK causeway has been raised and the old swing bridges you remember have gone the way of the buffalo. The Park Rd is now part of SH-361. The Texas coast is flavor of the week for realtors and developers; you're in Port Aransas long before you see Sharkey's.

[Hoser]

Thanks for the info, there was some development starting way back then,  figured the driving on the beach  would go away.  Is the pier still there at the end of the causeway road?  we used to drive south of there,at the National Seashore and camp out at all night. Hope they didn't develop that.  Heck, I don't even know if the Naval Air Station is still there.  There were a lot of us stationed there during the war, the base family housing area was full, not to mention the barracks.  Also at Kingsville and Beeville. We did maintenance on the aircraft 24 hours a day. And went on carrier quals monthly on the Lex.  Hoser  

The Blue Ghost
 

[fiddle mike]

Thanks for the info, there was some development starting way back then,  figured the driving on the beach  would go away.  Is the pier still there at the end of the causeway road?  we used to drive south of there,at the National Seashore and camp out at all night. Hope they didn't develop that.  Heck, I don't even know if the Naval Air Station is still there.  There were a lot of us stationed there during the war, the base family housing area was full, not to mention the barracks.  Also at Kingsville and Beeville. We did maintenance on the aircraft 24 hours a day. And went on carrier quals monthly on the Lex.  Hoser  

The Blue Ghost
 

Development ends a little ways past the entrance to Nueces County Park ( Padre Balli County Park) where Bob Hall Pier stands, rebuilt after Hurricane Buela took most of it out.  Just south of there and you're in Kleberg County  That bit of land abutting the National Seashore will probably never see a condo built.
Development has caused erosion and stopped dune migration, causing much of Mustang and Padre islands to become narrower. However, Padre Island is widening, south of there, being completely undeveloped except for a  National Seashore  ranger station and  the Malaquite Beach pavilion.

The Gulf side beaches belong to the people of Texas and we like to drive on it. Some of the thieves at City Hall got pink slipped over their last attempt to steal our land.

I can see NAS Corpus Christi from my window.

[Hoser]

Very cool, a winter vacation may be in the cards now that I have retired completely!  hoser