Port Aransas

After the museum and aquarium we were pretty tired so we drove to the hotel in Port Aransas and then layed out on the beach and enjoyed the breeze. Nick decided to test the waters and sure enough it was warm! Very un-beachlike if you ask me but it was a nice change.

We then went to explore and find a restaurant to go to for dinner. I wasn't really impressed with the selection in Port Aransas but we settled on this interesting Spaghetti place and the food was just ok. The next day we set out to explore more of the town.

We found this jetty to walk out on and we sat and listened to the waves and watched people fish. We were on the lookout for dolphins!

And we found some!! Below is a picture of them- sorry they are far away but we left the video camera in the car so not a very good zoom. We had our binoculars and we spent a good hour or two watching them and enjoying the beach.

So after the dolphin watch we decided to do some touristy shopping. They had a few of those big beach shops with t-shirts and they all had some type of shark outside to tempt you to come in and spend money. I was very dissapointed that there were not shops like the beaches I am used to but we still had fun seeing what they had to offer. We took a few pics outside the shops but as you can see below my camera was not cooperating and did not want to open the shutter- I think the pic still looks cool though.

So that pretty much wraps up the beach trip. It was just a quick trip to the coast and back so not too many pictures- sorry. Overall we had a fun time even in the hot hot weather. It made me miss home and the Oregon Coast beaches so we will have to plan a trip home next summer and spend time there instead!