CC Vacation day 3

Today started real early, about 1 am. Since our room was over looking the sea wall we had a wonderful balcony and sliding glass door. However that makes the room a little more susceptible to outside noises and the youth of Corpus like to take their loud music and play for all to hear. I finally a turned on the TV and it sort of muffled the outside noise. So I was able to get some more sleep, Keith never heard a thing.

Today was the day to drive to South Padre Island, I had no idea it was 2 hours south of Corpus Christi and Padre Island. We headed out and as we were driving we saw a sign that said next gas station 60 miles. That was when we realized we were driving through King Ranch. I commented no gas, no coffee, no Boston baked beans ( we still can't find any) , no bathrooms Oh My! I don't know if it was the lack of sleep or the waffle I ate for breakfast but it was not long before I was asleep. In my defense I did not sleep all the way I would wake up for a bit then fall back asleep.

 When we got to San Benito we found a convenience store for a pit stop and we looked for Boston Baked Beans no luck. But guess what we did find!!! A Harley Shop...we were looking for Roadrunner Harley but we found Wild Boar Harley they had changed name in the last couple of months. We found a t-shirt on the sale rack for Keith and I found a charm with the old name on it on sale for $8. All is well. Now to the beach!! We are still about an hour from South Padre I can't believe people drive all this way to party.

 As we are driving over the big bridge (everything is bigger in Texas ) we see a sign that says stop for the pelicans. Really you have to stop if you see a pelican! Once again I got out Yelp and found Pier 19? Actually we drove past the entrance once and had to turn around and go back and find it. The restaurant was on the pier we actually ate out on the water. We cold see out on all sides we had a great time watching all the boats. We saw speed boats, fishing boats and this pirate ship.



I had the fish taco's

 Keith had a Hawaiian burger with pineapple, ham and a couple of kinds of cheese.

As we were waiting I saw some  bowls of a seafood soup, next time I am getting that. The entire time we were eating we were watching a pelican outside our window. Just as we were paying our bill some goofy kids on seadoo's came up and scared it off.

We walked out side on the pier and saw some interesting pirates.

And there is a bar at the very end.

  Now to the beach... We decided to drive north along South Padre to the very end of the road. It was neat that as you were driving past the sand dunes taller than the car and people.

 

We got to the very end of Texas, well not the very end but the road does end.

We decided to head back across the bridge to Port Isabel. The bridge was awesome. When we got to Port Isabel, we looked back at the bridge and the traffic was stopped going into South Padre.

Port Isabel is where you can catch the boat rides, the speed boat and the pirate ship. There were some pirates on this pier as well.

This one looks a lot like Keith.

After we spent some time on the pier, we decided to head back to Corpus Christi. As we were heading back, we came across a truck check station, that had been turned into a check point for the border patrol. All vehicles were having to stop. There were camera's everywhere like we saw on the beach yesterday. I wanted to take pictures, but the guards were very serious, so I decided not to take any. They go to the window of the U-Haul truck in front of us, take the drug dog around it, then open the back door. That truck had to pull over, I guess the dog hit on something. As we were pulling up Keith is getting out license, insurance, and private carry permit. The guard motioned us forward and asked if we were citizens, the drug dog is circling our car, when we said yes they motioned us to leave. That definitely woke me up, those guards looked so serious.

As we were driving back to Corpus we decided to find the Taqueria Garibaldi. This was another restaurant that we saw on The Hairy Bikers. We drove over our favorite bridge twice, because we missed the turn the first time. 

We told the waiter we were there because we had seen them on Hairy Bikers. He said "do you remember seeing me? " He told us next time we need to try the whole fish. I had seen it on the menu, but wasn't sure about a whole fish. If it is as good as the enchilada's, it would be wonderful. They also had handmade flour tortillas. They had even fried some like the corn tortillas to eat with the salsa. The enchilada"s were even good cold on the trip home the next day.  After we stuffed ourselves, it was time to head back to the hotel. We went for one more walk along the seawall, because tomorrow we have to head back home.

 I really do love the beach; the sounds, the wind, the smells. Oh well, maybe we can come back again soon.