Where Does the Time Go?

We left gate guarding on February 15 and have been staying at Port Isabel, Texas. This is a small town on the east southern tip of Texas.  We have been there for 6 weeks and had a wonderful tie.  The town leads over to South Padre Island which is some what of a tourist attraction, but the town itself is pretty small.  My sister and brother-in-law, stay there every winter, so we decide to join them. 

We  really enjoyed our stay there but boy was it windy.  But then what do you expect when you are surrounded by water.  Port Isabel is a small town and then you have a 2 mile bridge that takes you over to South Padre Island.

Port Isabel, Tx
This light house is downtown
notice the wind

 

2 mile bridge going over to South Padre Island

My brother-in-law, Ron goes fishing almost every day.  No matter what the weather or how windy.  Ed declined quite a few of the days.  He's not the fisherman I thought he was.  I think he is getting "wimpy".  He doesn't read my blog so he won't  know I said that.

This is the dock they fish off of at Port Isabel

They also fish off the jedi.  This is off of South Padre Island

The first day they went out some guy fell off
Ed said at first all you could see was his feet sticking up
They were able to throw him a fishing stringer and pull him up
He was a little beat up from hitting against the rocks

Ron's fish?  But he did catch bigger ones at other times.

Bird taking a casual walk I think he is waiting for a fish.

Ed fell and of course he had to reenact the event.  Ron took the picture.

He said he slipped on something

 

 

This was the sting ray that took off with his pole
Later he snagged the pole with his other pole and brought
them both in.  There was also a shell attached but it fell off and
back into the water. 

We took the dolphin tour on Stella's birthday and the dolphin's didn't cooperate but we still had a nice time.  The weather was beautiful that day.  They pull a box behind the boat and show everybody what they caught.  It was interesting.

We did see a few dolphins but they weren't very close

This is what they drug up, mainly star fish

Ed insisted Stella hold one for the picture

A puffer fish was also caught
afterwards they throw them all back

There are shrimp boats everywhere.  But they always seem to be there so not sure when they go out.

There are also anchors everywhere, these are just a few of them.

They were huge and everywhere

Not an anchor but I thought it was interesting

We spent some time walking the beach but it was covered in seaweed and jelly fish.

Seaweed and jelly fish covered the beach
Stella said before spring break they would clean it up

In the back ground are the hotels

The jelly fish are pretty but they are also poisonous

We took our metal detectors out to the beach after the kids from spring break had left thinking maybe we would find something they had lost.  But Ed said they must have held on to their stuff  because this is what we found.

The metal detectors are not paying for their selves at this rate

 

It was a cold windy day.

South Padre Island is one of the main places the kids on spring break go.                               

 

Some of the Spring breakers

Sort of reminds you of the "60's"

Walmart getting ready for the Spring breakers coming in.
It's a big thing on the Island

 

This is where we were parked.  It was pretty tight but we had a little grass and trees and birds and most of the time a nice breeze coming in the windows. 

We were snug

This was 2 blocks down from us

There is so much more I could share but I have to stop for now.  I will try and not wait so long for the next time.

Happy Trails    Love  Ed and Lyn

During these times we need to remember Jesus said:
John 14:27  Peace, I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.