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As a ''Winter Texan'' I also appreciate letting everybody know how Horrible it is down here! Don't come! Blue states, this place still thinks we should all work for a living and that America should come first....Cave Men I tell ya!

See this? This is sand. Do you know what it will be in 100 years? It will be sand!

First let me say thanks for visiting PINS, second if you had read up it says after so many miles you are on your own. It is a barrier island meaning the whole gulf waters contacts it any debris from where ever finds land. Sir where and how can you pickup from the Gulf of Mexico? The parks department would go broke trying to pick up that many miles of beach. So to say Texans love PINS, they love it so much that they show the support to PINS by going the length of it picking up trash from every country except the USA! If you would like to hear the history or maybe help out get in contact with the friends of padre island. They clean from big shell so instead of bashing please volunteer they clean it up every February. Be nice the Texan way!

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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. I’m truly sorry to hear that your visit to Padre Island National Seashore (PINS) was disappointing, but I’d like to offer some perspective on why maintaining its cleanliness is such an immense challenge. PINS is not like going to a small state park or an RV campsite where it's easy to keep clean. As others have mentioned; the majority of the debris, including items like poles and trash, isn’t left by visitors but is carried in by the ocean. This constant influx of trash from the Gulf is a daunting problem, as it’s impossible to predict or fully control what washes ashore. Despite consistent efforts to clean the beach, the ocean’s vastness makes it an uphill battle. Teams can work tirelessly to pick up litter, only to find the same areas covered again the next morning. That said, PINS is a truly special place. Its expansive, untouched beauty offers visitors the chance to explore a remote and serene environment. Personally, I’ve only been there twice, but I’m already planning to return soon for a few nights of camping. One of my favorite things about PINS is that you can drive 30-40 miles down the beach and feel like you have the entire coastline to yourself-a rare and magical experience. I hope your future travels bring you joy and discovery, and perhaps a fresh perspective on the unique challenges faced by places like PINS. Best wishes!

No one likes trash, I'm the same. It angers me to see litter. However, next time stop and chat with the park staff before casting judgement. I live on the island. All these things you are saying they should do to clean up the beach they ARE doing. But you are asking for the impossible. The goal of a national park is to preserve the natural environment. They could send bulldozers and big dump trucks up and down the beach weekly to remove flotsam and jetsam, but they'd be destroying vegetation, potential endangered sea turtle nesting areas, etc.... They DO, however, perform regular beach cleanups where crews walk the beach and pick up trash by hand. They also hold massive community events several times a year where the public turns up to help by the hundreds. You can see what I mean if you visit the county beach right next to the national seashore. The county runs bull dozers and big commercial trucks weekly down their beach to clean up trash. The natural environment there is wrecked. No sea turtles, no shells, vegetation is pushed back all the way to the dunes and the dunes themselves are eroding..... and after all that there is STILL trash. The problem isn't the park service. It's trashy people and Gulf currents. There is a gulf stream that runs up from central america and then parallel to the island, dumping trash from as far away as Venezuela. It's impossible to properly clean every bit of trash off 65 miles of wild terrain while doing no harm to the natural environment and keeping it wild. That's why the guests help is so important. Kudos to you for doing the right thing, but please educate yourself before casting blame.

next time try WADING OUT a little farther (about waist deep.) then cast a gold spoon (the proper retrieve is key here. work the spoon SIDE TO SIDE, not up and down (fish swim sideways, not up and down)

This is my absolute favorite beach. I've been to beaches in CA, MS, AL and all around the coast line of FL and this is still my favorite beach. All beaches have garbage wash up on shore. We don't mind helping to keep this beautiful beach clean. Thanks for helping us keep our PINS a secret.

You come across as bitter and disgruntled 😮

I was just there a couple of weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Trash was non existent and I think you picked the wrong time to go.

I’ve been reading through the comments and on nearly all of them where the locals comment “don’t come back etc.” you guys reply with “we really did have a good time”…yet on the thumbnail you put “Don’t visit this National Park.” So which one is it?

There’s no way the park service would be be able to keep up with the trash. It comes in every time the tide cycles. I’ve been going down there since 94 and I would say 80% of the trash that washes up has foreign language written on it. The trash is coming from container ships that dump out in international waters. I definitely applied you for picking up the trash around your campsite. It’s just part of it.

Those telephone poles came from New York

Don't come back. Please. Thanks to Billy for blowing you off the beach.

Thank you for visiting and for taking out more than you brought in because humans are filthy creatures. Note, most of the stuff on our beaches comes from the ocean (as far as Africa even) and, we have a large coast which sees many hurricanes so there's that. It's everyone's responsibility to our land clean, not just the gov't (they can't clean their own @$$) so keep that in mind. Lastly, please tell everyone you meet in New York, PINS ain't worth visiting and ya'll have fun up there! Take care and God Bless Texas!

Anyone that lets their reel hit the sand, I would say they’re not very good fisherman. IMO.

Shoulda just went a little south of bob hall. You’d have enjoyed it much gooder…

Sure blame government for everything.

I'm not sure how you managed to not get shredded in the comments. So very first thing you do is graffiti on a washed up buoy and spend the rest of you time slamming the parks service. First of all most of that trash is not even from campers. Or Texans. Or Americans. It's mostly washed up and if you took the time you'd see the language on the trash is Mexican and even Japanese. We can tell the tide has just been very high, almost to the dune line, so that stuff you were picking up was yours or washed in. Do you know what it would cost to pay the park service to clean 60 miles of beach that changes EVERY DAY? SMH. Secondly, PINS has beach cleanups all the time, one being absolutely massive, consisting of nothing but volunteers. I'd mention the name of the cleanup but to be honest I hope you never come back. You don't understand undeveloped primitive camping on beach anyway. Don't Mess with Texas.

Good, please tell everyone from California to go back home!

I love PINS and appreciate that you cleaned up what you did. I would encourage you to try again sometime. However, there will be new trash from Mexico and the rest of the gulf that converges there. A wind break between two vehicles helps when tent camping. A rooftop tent is understandably rough, but also part of the experience I suppose. I wish you'd had better luck fishing as there is some great fishing there at times. Safe travels.

You do understand PINS is a natural shoreline, undeveloped and unmolested since is a primary sea turtle nesting habitat, right? Apparently not. Maybe you could do some research before you condemn an area completely. If there has been machinery running up and down the beach doing the clean up so the beach met your standards you'd like be complaining about that instead. And to parrot a number of other comments, well, all of them really, please tell all of your friends with mind sets like yours that this is the most God awful place on earth that should be avoided at ALL costs. Crybabies.

For 2 seasoned gentlemen that were as equipped as they claimed to be, they didn't seem too prepared. I run up and down PINS all the time, and I can tell you for a fact, that the 'poles' that was up were not there "for a long time". They get removed in an acceptable amount of time. It's irrisponsible to tell people not to visit. For the amount of staff that they are funded to employ, they do a good job. Trash washes up, and it's a LOOONG stretch of beach. Don't blame the Parks dept. Blame the lazy humans that litter.

Please, continue to recommend not coming here to all of your friends as much as you possibly can. The more of you out of State people that stay away from here the better.

Yeah I agree with you! I live there in the end of the 60 s and 70 s I loved that place we would go to big shell 🐚🐚 the ranger s at times would check on us,or never see them. If you poor camper,s can't handle great camping THEN STAY THE FUCK OUT! Dam whimps

Like many of the folks who have commented here, PINS, is one of my favorite places in the world. It is never the same from one day to the next. WIND? It's a seashore with constant wind. Tree trunks, trash? That is the natural cycle of things on this beach. The currents and tides bring what they bring. I have found items from as far away as Africa on this beach. Quite honestly, I'd rather have a beach as God gives it to me, trash and all, than a sanitized Disney Land of beach. Glad you came, glad you helped clean up. Maybe you will enjoy Miami beach better.

The main function is a wildlife reserve, not tourism. No one cleans the beach just like any other remote beach. Fishing is the same as anywhere in the world. Same periods nobody’s catching and there’s a learning curve specific to the area. You boys just didn’t know what you were getting into. But don’t berate PINS for your ignorance

Yup lemme assured u as a fellow texan, PINS is garbage with lots of square groupers washed up. Tons of pot holes dug up by the sea turtles nesting, horrible wind gust all year long, doo doo caca brown water, and lets not mention the fishing at the end of PINS at the jetty. Please let all the other’s out of towners know to go camp in ur nyc neck of the wood park and stay away from PINS. Kay thnx bye!

two three years from now you'll open something and out will come sand. Lived in CC as a kid. Sand gets everywhere.

I mean, what kind of content did you expect from a couple of “pride guys”??

I guess these yahoos are prepared for a $50-100 a vehicle entrance fee??? Thank you for telling all the non S Texans how bad this beach is…..it should never be visited by outsiders!

I agree, stay away. There’s already too many people there. As for me, I’ll continue abusing myself with visits.

At first I thought this video was a joke trying to detour people from coming to our sanctuary. But after seeing y’all’s fishing rods laying in the sand and in the surf I realized yall don’t have much common sense and DEFINITELY arnt locals. A couple things 1 trash washes up in storms from other country’s offshore. 2 you said it yourself it is a 4 hour drive to the end. How in the world is the park supposed to pick up that much trash lol. Most locals actually think it’s fun finding things from far away that tell a story. So thank you for detouring people away from our amazing island. But please stay the hell away lol.

I’m tired just watching this😅

Well you both don't have a clue as to what PINS is about. You do not know how to fish and no they don"t clean the beach for you. PINS is remote , beautiful and can be challenging. There are many other areas where the beach may be groomed to your standards.

Welcome to Texas , now go home.

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thats the point of padre is that they dont clean the beach of all the trees

You are correct, there is trash everywhere down there. My sister and I camped there for spring breaknin the 90s and it was really trashed back then. All the haters that probably aren't even from Texas have something to say, lol. It's trashed every time I go down there. One of the only places on earth that has flesh eating bacteria in the water, wonder why.

I had a hard time trying to watch these people. Educated folks know that the trash washed up is from Central and South America. Do these people think that the coconuts on the beach came from Texas? +40 miles of beach with trash from two other continents takes a lot of picking up. Sorry you were offended.....As a 5th generation Texan, I invite you to never return, we will very pleased to do without you. The "Texas wants you anyway" slogan has its limits....

Our beaches are terrible. Best left to us folks in Texas to deal with. Please spread the word. We sure don’t want Yankees coming down and crying because our beaches aren’t up to their standards. Y’all don’t deserve our beaches. Best of luck to y’all now, as you head back home.

Another great video. Hopefully one of our viewers can you give us some insight on who this bus belong to

That was FAB!!! You guys find the most interesting places and I love learning about unusual things like this British tour bus. Great video!

Honestly don’t know what y’all were thinking coming to Texas and bad mouthing it 😂. All these comments are well deserved ya Yankees. Thanks for picking up the trash tho 🤙

Great video would love to see more Colorado……ps thanks for the hat😉

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Oh boohoo you couldn't make ot to the end in your little jeep because it was windy and trash from Mexico washed up? Go back to New York and cry about it 😂

If you want complain about something, try sandfleas, mosquitos on leeward side of sand dunes and Portuguese Man O War. My mom hated when we tracked tar from the beach into the house!!! Corpus Christi is lovely.

PINS is a gem. Its like the wild west on the beach.

I appreciate every spoiled out of state tourist you can turn away. You have done the state a great service.