Last weekend
We went to Port Mansfield. It’s a sixty mile drive.
The visual picture is: Padre Island is a barrier island running north south for a hundred miles along this section of the Texas Coast. the Gulf of Mexico to the east, Padre Island in the middle, the Laguna Madre on the west side of Padre Island, then the mainland to the west of that. Port Mansfield is on the mainland. There is a low spot in Padre Island where waves would wash over in a storm. They dredged that out as a boat channel through the island into the Laguna Madre right opposite Port Mansfield. Port Mansfield has fishing access to the Laguna Madre for shallow water fish, and access by way of Mansfield Pass (channels though islands are called passes here) to deep water fish.
Port Mansfield has a few houses. A little beach park on the water. A fishing pier. A marina. That’s about it. No downtown. No stores. No shops. Absolutely nothing to do.
We spent the whole day.
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