Trip to Brownsville Day 4

We got to Port A. about 1:00 pm. One of our nicest days on the water ever!. It was a short day with only 14 nm plus a stop as we left Rockport for fuel and a pumpout. After tying up and checking in at the marina, I took a nap for about an hour. Then we took the electric scooters and toured the area.

    
They are lots of entrances to drive on the beach along the Gulf of Mexico side of the barrier island. The tires on the scooters are narrow - about the width of a moutain bike tire. However, the sand was damp and very well packed so we went about a mile along the beach.



Then we went into two souvenir stores and one hardware store. As you can see, I was nearly eaten by a shark at one of the souvenir stores...

     At the hardware store I bought a nut and lock washer for 27cents.  We had yet another "event" this morning where the ground wire on the starter on the starboard engine was loose. When I went to tighten the nut on the ground wire, the old lock washer fell off in several pieces.

The Admiral had to stop on the beach to do some wading.

      We are docked at a marina in a small harbor just to the left as you exit the ferry from the mainland. Across this harbor there are 4 or 5 nice looking waterfront restaurants. We had dinner in one, and then as we were just about back to the boat, the battery on my scooter started to die... I got slower and slower until I was hardly moving at all when we reached the boat. The manual for the scooter says "up to 12 mile range"... So I guess that we really had seen a lot of the area even if not quite 12 miles. We could easily spend several days here in Port Aransas, and perhaps we will on the way back.

     Tomorrow we plan to leave the dock at 6:00 am since it is about 88 nm to Port Mansfield... The marina where Terry wants to stay has a pool which would seem nice after a long day on the water.