We had a nice family trip to Corpus and Port A in July.
We headed straight to the city beach in CC. And rejoiced to be on the seashore again.
Kinda deep in the water, Gloria started screaming, we had been stung by nettles before and they are mild, as we were helping her we thought she was being dramatic until one got me on the arm as well and WOW it hurt. She only got a spot on the leg and we got back to the beach in one piece. Might have been a tentacle of a Portuguese man of war.
After lunch and lots of playing we headed to our fancy hotel on the sea wall. We swam in the indoor/outdoor pool and then up to our room to clean up.
View from our room!
Also in the garage there were bats near our truck.
We walked down the sea wall, past the Selena Memorial and to Joe's crab shack to meet Lari Jo and Taylor for dinner.
Selfie!
Next morning we stopped at the flagship Whataburger for breakfast. The girls said they didn't like the fancy hotel because there is no breakfast like LQs :)
We drove over the bridge to Mustang Island to spend the day...fishing...
playing and floating in the way...
catching crabs and little fish with the net and even finding a mermaid!
We then went into a very crowded Port A for shark pictures, and a drive past Lydia's birth home.
Then dinner at Virginia's with a view of the Lydia Ann Lighthouse.
We watched birds (no alligator this time) at the Birding Center, then back to the beach for a walk down the jetty and a few more splashes in the waves.
Sunday Caleb had a workshop so he dropped us off at the Aquarium. We had a great long day of dolphin watching, seeing all the tanks 3 times, other shows, touching everything we were allowed, lunch, dipping dots, standing on the pier and seeing wild dolphins and explaining to a family from Kansas that the bay is part of the ocean so they aren't in captivity and what a jetty is. Caleb got us and we journey back to the interior of Texas, thankful for another great trip to the beach!
