King Tide on South Padre Island

A normal day in May on South Padre, about a dozen miles north of the end of pavement on the wilderness beach.  Sea level rise started eroding the beach in the early twenty-teens. Now the beach is gone and high tides are eroding into the dunes. These King Tides occur in May and October when the sun and moon align just right to add another 20 percent to the tide. Before the beach eroded away, King Tides never eroded into the dunes.