- April 09, 2020
Way up the four-wheel drive beach on South Padre in 2014, a little piece of history was being washed away. This was one of the few remnant beaches, now gone. Between June 2018 and May 2019, normal non-storm high tides were high enough on over 50 days to erode into the dunes. In some places by 2019, the dunes had been completely eroded away. And an important note, there is no subsidence on this beach. The beaches most of us visit have been been nourished with sand from ship channels or offshore sources pumped onto the beach during the non-tourist season. The reason? Without a beach, condos, beach hotels, and resorts rentals of all kinds would be worthless. This beach has never been nourished and as a consequences has nearly been eroded away.