AOL Travel Names Mustang Island Texas #6 In America's Best Islands
I just love this part of Texas. I truley think this is one of the if not the best beach in all of Texas. This is an area of TX that has been left alone and is just as God intednded it to be. It is "unspoiled" and just a great place to visit.
PORT ARANSAS, Texas - AOL Travel names Mustang Island #6 in America's "top ten" islands...
6. Mustang Island, Port Aransas, Texas
This 18-mile-long barrier island, connected by a causeway and 24-hour ferry to Corpus Christi, offers wildlife and wild life at party-hearty Port Aransas. Trolleys ply the historic honkytonk town, filled with down-home pubs and upscale galleries. Wide bay- and Gulf-side beaches, lined with dunes, seafood shanties and marinas, hikers, seashell collectors, and sandcastle architects (100,000 spectators ogle hundreds of entries at SandFest, the nation's largest sand-sculpting competition, every April). Aquatic activities abound: surfing waves off the jetty, kite-boarding off protected sandbars, casting for trophy tuna and tarpon. Tournaments lure international competitors, who spin tales of the ones that got away in fun funky bars. More than 500 bird species vacation here, dolphin frolic in the channel, and coyote roam Mustang Island State Park.Learn more about Mustang Island and the other "top ten" locations at USA Today.
Mustang Island, Texas
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