Surfing Safari

We’re spending about a month on South Padre Island and we’ve done some surfing. We have also done some swimming with surfboards, dolphins, and seaweed.

A few days ago Daddy and I decided to go surfing. We checked an app on his phone to make sure the waves would be big. The app told us they would be two-three feet high and we figured “Yesterday it said the same thing and yesterday’s waves were great!” Well when we went the waves were not great. They were tiny little things that were so close to shore you barely had a chance to catch the them before you were washed back onto the San d. Instead of trying to catch the sad little waves, Daddy and I resolved to swim (with our boards) out along the super long jetty. For the most part Daddy was a lot faster than me, part of the reason was because he was on the surfboard and I was on the boogie board.

On the way to the jetty, Daddy and I saw some Bottlenose dolphins in the distance. But on our way back to shore they swam and flipped only about fifty feet away! The closest one I saw was maybe fifteen or twenty feet away, coming straight at us. Our escort could have consisted of six to twenty six dolphins, we were sure there were at least six though.

There was also a lot of obnoxious seaweed. It got anywhere, my hair, my mouth, everywhere! Every other step I would feel a squish under my toes. On occasion I would also feel a fish, that got grabbed by the waves, brush my fingers or feet.

There were also obnoxious seagulls and grackles that would grab your food the moment you took your eyes of them or your food. Thanksgiving was quite difficult with plates of food just asking to be stolen. At low tide we could find so many pretty shells but we couldn’t take any home because they were already taken by hermit crabs!

At the end of our exciting day we raced each other to the tiny waves to see who could catch one, the dolphins won first place, with Daddy being the runner up.