1989, Padre Island National Seashore, 7 Miles Beyond

Back in the day we would camp on the wilderness four-wheel drive only beach at Padre Island National Seashore for days or even weeks at a time. This was our favorite spot at 7 miles beyond the four-wheel drive only sign. We would drive down in our two wheel drive pickup during low tide where the sand was packed by the waves. It was beyond about this 7 mile mark where the “Little Shell” beach began, where even the wet, packed sand below the tide line was soft enough to stick a two-wheel drive. It was 100 to 300 feet of dry, soft, burning hot sand to the dunes.