Day 3 Malaquite Campground Padre Island National Seashore Corpus Christi, Texas

We spent the early morning posting the blog at the visitor center.

Our plan for this evening was to camp out on the beach. We packed the tent and all our bedding. We packed lunch and dinner and coffee for tomorrow morning and we drove down South Beach. We found an access road to the mudflats.

We stopped for lunch and then sat on the beach reading and relaxing. The pelicans and gulls were great entertainment.

At around 5:00 we found our camping spot. We set up our camp and had some cheese and crackers. We had chef salads and sourdough bread for dinner. We watched the shadows lengthen.

Sunset.

We saw the moon rise…a full pink moon. The Native Americans called it the pink moon because the pink flowers bloom at this time of year

We enjoyed a fire with some hot chocolate and amaretto.

We stayed up until almost 10:00 and then we slept!

Reading through this, it doesn’t sound too magical. We ate, we slept…all the ordinary things. The magical part is that we were in this incredibly beautiful setting. There was no one else within a half mile. We were all alone on this remote beach…that’s the magic!