Ep. 228: Surfside Beach, Texas | RV travel camping hiking
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Join us this week for camping right on the Gulf of Mexico in Surfside Beach, Texas! We're spending most of our visit just relaxing on the sand and doing a bit of exploration, which includes hunting alligators while hiking at Brazos Bend State Park. We take a peek at nearby Galveston, too, while staying just above the high tide line at Beachfront RV Resort, which has a huge rebuilding task on its hands following the destruction caused by Hurricane Nicholas which made landfall just 24 miles west of here only a few weeks earlier.
Filmed: October 10-17, 2021
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:06 Beachfront RV Resort
6:41 The Dyrt PRO
7:19 Surfside Beach
11:12 Free boondocking on the beach
12:34 Hiking at Brazos Bend State Park
16:49 Wrap-up and what's next
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We boondocked Padre Island in 1968 when we were stationed at Laredo Air Force Base. We had fun in the tiny camper we’d rented on base. We fished, swam, and got sunburned like the twenty something kids we were. Happy times!
That sounds like a wonderful time, Bill! We too boondocked on Padre Island back in 2019, but only after we waited in a campground for a few days until a cold front came through: ua-cam.com/video/SqY-UIfQnRQ/v-deo.html
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Love ya, bud!
Fabulous video!!! Love the Texas Gulf Coast beaches and towns. You filmed so much of the beauty there I will have to watch again at least three more times. Thanks!
You go right ahead, Joyce! 😁Thank you so much.
Awesome! Thank you!👍😎🇨🇦🐊
Thank YOU as always Marian!
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Thanks for tonight, Norm -- we sincerely appreciate you.
@@GrandAdventure I appreciate your VLOG every week
What a great spot, love the idea of the park being RIGHT THERE on the water, as well as not that far from Galveston! Another great place to visit on our list of time we plan to be in TX when we get the chance!
Next best thing to boondocking on the beach. On windy days, though, it has the same downsides as boondocking on the beach: blowing salt spray and blowing sand. At least with hookups you've got the ability to hose everything off.
I am glad they are doing something about that campground. Here in florida after hurricane irma they never (the state) bothered to repair and rebuild my most beloved florida keys campground called long key state park. It was destroyed... ok great they trucked in sand in 2017... left piles of it and it has been sitting long and forgotten now for 5 years.. piles and all. Bahia Honda state park sustained some damage so they actually spend effort fixing that over 2 years.
That's a shame, MTL. I don't personally recall Long Key SP from our time living in FL, but I definitely remember Bahia Honda vividly. It's a gorgeous spot.
If we would have know you were here. Nice video
Thank you! There's always Q25. Check out last week's episode for the full future wrap-up of the event.
We spent time in that area last winter. I so loved that area.
It's such a relaxing area, we sure love getting to the beach on occasion. Thanks for watching, Cathy!
Enjoyed the Video , Mark. Safe travels.
Thank you Dennis, and same to you!
Thank's for the video, you do outstanding work. Respectfully I'll pass on this location after a Google search.
Thank you Jim! Honestly, we had no complaints.
Marc, my friend...you want to see alligators ? Just come on over to Louisiana in the spring !
🤣 Yup, I've watched enough episodes of "Swamp People".
Nice your!
I’m surprised you didn’t see gators! I’ve been there multiple times and had to watch that I didn’t trip over them, really lol.
We believe you! Glad that you enjoyed this one, Susan -- thank you.
Nice video as always but we are just not beach people. But love camping and the mountain's. Keep living the dream brother and GOD Bless.
Same to you, Thomas! One more example of why they make cars in different colors.
Looks like a great area!
It's what we look for in a beach town, Barratt: slow and low-key.
Great video
Glad you enjoyed it Myron, thank you!
Beautiful campsite and loved the park. Missed seeing the gators.
Glad you enjoyed it! Yeah we were disappointed to, but it was a gorgeous hike nevertheless.
I really want to get to some beach camping someday. Isolated and listen to the waves for a few days. Then a car wash to hit the under carriage 😂. Looks great 👍🏼
But you're already salty! 😁 We had a really strong onshore wind for a couple of days, blowing salt spray and sand all over everything. I hosed down the RV twice while we were there, and at one point I took the truck to a self-service car wash because I couldn't even see out the windows anymore. It took weeks to get all the sand out. And when we arrived at our next destination I happily paid the RV park the $5 fee to thoroughly hand wash the entire RV.
great video! thanks for the info!
You're most welcome April, thanks for watching!
Mark I am down at Magnolia Beach, Texas come on down. I know you are. Good video
We would be there, except by tonight we're already back in Moab.
Looks like a beautiful place to camp. Wow. Why doesn’t Florida allow beach RV camping? Definitely something we want to do. But I do worry about getting stuck.
That state park looks like you are in Florida? So crazy. The trees, the wildlife. No gators? 🤣 That happened to us canoeing before.
Alice
It's very Florida-like, Alice, right down to the Spanish moss.
Nice review! You were not too far from us in Galveston.
Thank you! Not too far at all, a quick 25-mile drive.
Sorry we are missing you. We are headed to Mustang Island SP.
Safe travels, and have a wonderful time! Next week's episode will be from that area.
You always seem to pick the best spots to camp at campgrounds.
You must be royalty. 😉
Port Freeport was where I disembarked off my last ship of my sailing career. I was delayed because of a hurricane that hit Freeport and we had to run south to avoid most of it and then we were delayed until they got the mess cleaned up so we could enter the port. This was back in 2009.
Love the tons of beach!! Such a great area.
Brazos Bend looked so peaceful. We’re there a lot of people or was there just a group there?
Thanks for sharing.
Ram
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Glad that we could bring you back there! Brazos Bend is very popular, especially when you visit on a Saturday like we did. It turned out that we were lucky to get in as they were requiring reservations that we didn't have. However, most visitors appear to congregate in one of two areas of the park, leaving most of it underutilized.
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I was near Surfside last spring. I stayed at the Quintana Beach County Park, just south west of Surfside. It was very reasonably priced with full hookups and laundry. No beach views, but very short walk over the dunes to get to the beach. I still have not been to Brazos Bend State Park yet. Seems like every time I can go, it is closed due to flooding or other weather-related event. I enjoyed your video of the park, especially the Common Gallinules swimming in the water.
Thank you! Both for your comment and for identifying those birds, for we don't know an eagle from a crow. Quintana Beach County Park was actually under consideration when we finally decided on Surfside.
Thanks Mark, Were deciding weather to go to florida to see a sister inlaw next summer. would be going from arizona to florida. would like to travel along the gulf coast.
Thanks for sharing.
Our pleasure, Rob! But Florida in summer? You're a better man than me.
I saw a RV trailer today that had a string of solar panels that ran from Stem to Stern. They were mounted on a framework that suspend them just above the air conditioning units and had a three position triangle base (left, right, and straight up). I estimate there were about ten or twelve full size panels, and about 15 to 20 kilowatts of output power. As I followed along behind it I thought if those air conditioning units were mini splits they could double or triple the panels on the roof. My 4 ton air conditioner on my house needs about thirty kilowatts to run it and the house lights through the night. My thirty six solar panels average about 50 kilowatts per day.
I just think mobile trailers like yours could easily produce enough electricity to charge enough batteries so as to power your Air conditioning through the night with plenty leftover to shower and make breakfast in the morning. Even if your keeled the existing air conditioning and left out panels where the air conditioning units were.
No doubt we could, Delton -- both with a huge solar array, and a massive battery bank. Such an investment, though, is unfortunately way above my pay grade.
All you need to get started is 20K, lithium battery bank alone is 8K or more.
@@tumbleweedking5668 yep, those are the kind of numbers I'm referring to.
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Thank you!
Great video! I've been looking for more to do along the Texas coast!
Thanks Stan! Then you'll appreciate this Wednesday's new episode as well.
What a great spot next to the beach. That storm really did some damage to the dunes. The aerial footage really shows the damage. Thanks Don
You're most welcome, Don. We always scout out a place via satellite first, whether boondocking or a campground -- for example, to see where the spot is and how closely together they pack folks. So we were very surprised to find the dunes missing upon our arrival.
Love the beach, Marc. Gord
As do we, Gord.
@@GrandAdventure Looking forward to your reflections this evening, Marc...
Looking forward to New Braunfels!
Just two weeks, CO!
When you go to New Braunfels you guys have to check out Gruene and especially Gruene Hall. Best music in the Hill Country! We saw Kevin Costner and Modern West this summer.
@@dukefleshman4936 He was already there recently. I was just referring to the video he will be putting out about it in a couple of weeks. I'm betting Gruene and the Hall will both be in the video. My wife and I have been there several times too. First dance hall in Texas.
@@dukefleshman4936 we're already past New Braunfels, but rest assured that Gruene is in the video.
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Thanks for the sub! Welcome aboard.
Excellent videoing, will have to camp at that rv campground.
Thank you Vince! Glad that you enjoyed it.
when i was a kid we would cross the bridge, drive strait to the water, turn left, and drive all the way to the jetties...NOT any more... beach is disappearing
As is the case in many beach areas, Sandra. Wind and waves take sand from some places, and deposit it somewhere else.
Oh the memories....of the summer days as a kid frolicking on many of the beaches between Galveston & Surfside!
Very happy, then, that we could bring you back!
@@GrandAdventure thanks!
Thank you for the videos, it’s been a while since I watched your adventures due to ours come to an end very suddenly when my husband passed on one of our adventures, he was only 37 years old, a lake accident, and it has been so hard to adjust to everyday life without him my best friend my love he could walk up to anyone and talk with them for hours, now I try to make it through day by day, he was the driver of our travel trailer, me always a passenger so my life just feels so distance from everything but hopefully with time God will reveal a way for me to travel to somehow get a little of my normal back .
Oh my word, Tina! I don't know what to say other than that I'm so sorry for your loss. Here's wishing you healing.
Thank you, I appreciate it very much.
Great video. To bad you have already left. There is anouther You tube Channel "RV Texas You all" is just down the road at Jamaica Beach RV Park.
I will be in Los Vegas The 6-11 Dec. At Oasis RV Park.
Thank you William! We know Tom & Stacie, they're wonderful people, and actually tried to connect with them again this year the way that we did back in 2019 ua-cam.com/video/SqY-UIfQnRQ/v-deo.html . Unfortunately, though, they were still out of state while we were in Surfside. Enjoy Vegas!
Beautifully done video Marc! it was super nice to see the coast of Texas, beautiful water, beautiful blue skies, miles of sand beach, beach style houses, marsh birds, summer conditions... It's really hard to imagine that it is hot there when I'm curled up with wool socks and a wool blanket, feeling chilly.
Thank you as always Suzane! We're now back in the chill ourselves, it's almost hard to imagine that just a few weeks ago we chose the park over boondocking out of a need for a/c.
Finally there are too Morrison park. Quintana state park history museums hiking trails brazosport college Texas legislature the surfside city served by brazoria county library system but as I read Texas beaches have unsafe level of fecal bacteria as whole in 19 th July 2019 visitors are advised not enter gulf water beaches there 85 percent in Texas state tested water pollution thank you for sharing your trips with us encourage us to explore places unknown to us learn new information improve our English language as well stay safe blessed good luck to you your family friends
We wish you the same for you and your family, Khatoon.
Marc, thank you for another great video. Looks like a nice place to kick back and relax. Don
You bet it was, Don. Thank you!
Great video! Love the drone footage on this and all your videos! Be safe and well and blessed! Thanks again for taking us along with you!
Thanks for coming along, Michael! Same to you and yours.
I would probably enjoy the birds 🤔Interesting to see the beach and beach environment. As always, your videos are great .👍
Glad you like them, Pamela -- many thanks!
Looks like a really nice area, your campsite was great, and not very crowded just the way you like it, there's always alot to rebuild after a big storm or hurricane, travel safe.
Thank you Gary, and same from us to you and yours.
LOVED Surfside Beach! Still find it crazy how deserted so many of the houses still are from Hurricane Harvey. But, it's hard to beat that sunrise!
We adored our week there. It was just the opportunity to slow down and unwind that we were looking for.
Wow, This looked like awesome place to go and relax or just have fun. I can't wait until we are able to explore more and see beautiful places like this considering I'm a beach person anyway.. Thanks for sharing it and adding to our bucket list.. Hope to see you on the road.
Thank you! Glad that I enjoyed it, and hope to see you out there, too.
That looks like a wonderful place to chill with a cold drink. The drone footage was beach'in! I think I will go get a cold drink then watch it again while I pretend that I am there instead of Riverdale Utah bundling up in the cold rain.
Hey, Marv! Thank you very much! Warm that place up before we get to Draper this Friday.
Marc, thanks for another Grand Adventure. I'd like to check that out sometime in the near future.
Fantastic Scott, thanks for watching!
🙈 OH NO, there you go again making me add another place to my bucket list. This beach 🏖 looks awesome. I will definitely be checking it out in the future. Question: do you know a way to avoid hurricane season. The possibility scares me to 💀 death! 😎🥾🚐
The nice thing about hurricanes (as opposed to, say, tornadoes) is that you get advance warning of several days, plenty of time to get out of Dodge. Late summer is the peak of the season that lasts from early June to the end of November. Tornadoes scare the bejeezuz out of me; hurricanes, not so much.
Now that’s my kind of view. To be able to listen to the waves crash along the shore is so relaxing. Brazos State Park will be added to our list. The ones we have stayed at we encountered the javelinas. Another awesome video with some amazing drone footage. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you as always Melody! We were fortunate to have had our cameras handy when we encountered some javelinas while staying in Fort Davis a few weeks earlier: ua-cam.com/video/syn4qP751S4/v-deo.html
@@GrandAdventure I remember seeing that one. Milo wasn’t a fan. When he saw them during the day they didn’t seem to phase him but at night he didn’t like to go out
@@melodyassaro no kidding. They apparently made an impression.
So where were you going to camp for free? we are beginning are grand adventure but have no use for paid campgrounds!!! Boon docking all the way is are goal.
Dwane, we could've boondocked for free right on the county beach that we showed in this video, just beyond the Surfside town line.
Marc your drone videos are excellent. What drone are you using?
Thanks Joseph! This one was filmed with a DJI Mini 2, although most of our drone footage is shot with a DJI Mavic Pro.
It is great to see the seasonal variation. Based on the temperature I am guessing this was over a month ago? As we are heading into summer it is so helpful for planning to see the effects of the weather. Sometimes it is difficult to judge by max and min temperature alone. We sold off everything to go full time 2 years ago, and then Covid! We are going through the same process again now, but at least we are practiced! Thanks again for your great work Marc. The 2 Tasmanians.
Thank you! Glad that it's helpful for you. Yes, this was 4 weeks ago -- FYI we always put the filming dates in the video description, in case you're ever in doubt.
did you catch any fish
I would have needed to have fished to have caught any. 😉
Looks nice I’ll check it out. We’re always looking for good beach camping ❤️. We were at Brazos Bend a couple weeks ago. We really enjoyed hiking along the lake and we saw cool birds and two alligators 🐊 !
It's a beautiful State Park, isn't it? We found Surfside to be the perfect low-key place to dig our toes in the sand for a week.
Marc. What is the spot # you are on in the rv park.
We honestly don't recall the number. Maybe 17? We can't find a sitemap on their website.
I really enjoy your videos you really do go to beautiful and interesting places. However you really should find out the proper pronunciation of the places you are and as a Texan I notice. Folks not from around here may not know how to pronounce Brazos or from your Fredericksburg video, Luckenbach. Keep the great videos coming 🥰
We try, Pam and we will often get it wrong. I hear the same thing with an out-of-starter visiting our native Utah, but we don't fault them for that. Every place in this country has peculiar local pronunciations.
Still love your videos anyway 👱🏻
Very nice, Marc. Loved the aerial views of the coastal beach... miles and miles of coastal beach smiles. Also, I loved the drive along the beach as well.
Yes, you really need a drone to get some video perspective of the layout and beauty. Great shots of everything.
I noticed that you didn't take your yak out this time. Any particular reason? I realize that any kind of surf doesn't work well with kayaks. But the inlets and bayous should have been ok.
Where will next week's adventure be?
Gord
Glad you enjoyed it, Gord! I had a busy work week that week, so I wasn't able to get out as much as I prefer. Also with the days getting shorter it becomes more difficult to do things after work, especially as my work day ends at 6 pm in the Central Time Zone. It's not like mid-summer when it doesn't get dark until 9:30. Next week we'll be down in Port Aransas with Homie At Large for the beach, the USS Lexington and belt sander racing.
@@GrandAdventure Cool beans, Marc. Looking forward to it, as always. Glad you got the next best thing to boondocking on the beach. Gotta do what you gotta do. Yes, we had unseasonally warm weather at that time.
That has to be hard, after a hurricane on the seaside resorts, post Covid year of lost business. Sinking all the money back into your business to keep it going. You can't get insurance in those places.
Gord
@@gorrdd what's worse, I understand that Hannah left them a similar mess almost exactly a year earlier.
@@GrandAdventure Wow... at least that was a mostly lost year anyway. Still, the reconstruction costs money. I suspect they simply rented a Bobcat and did most of the work themselves.
But redoing the landscaping does get expensive. Bringing in new palm trees and nursing them until they take root, is usually a two year job.
You gotta have landscape to give some relief to your location. The Gulf seashore it's beautiful but in it's natural state can be rather flat and desolate. Some people like that wilderness look, but It tends to grow old fairly quickly.
Did Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula get hit hard again? They have much more invested than the Freeport beaches area.
Gord
@@gorrdd if the Galveston area took a beating it wasn't obvious to us -- most of the damage seemed to end at the San Luis Pass. That makes sense as the landfall was actually 24 miles west of Surfside, and of course Galveston is east.
How are you doing master Marc ihope you are not get bored of me because we are as foreigners subscribers as overseas students want to learn new information improve our English language as well and as always gathering main points about places you visited briefly here it’s surf side beach locally known as surf side is city in brazoria county Texas situated on follet island by Gulf of Mexico near city of Freeport attractions such as fishing deep sea excursion surf side Jerry park crabbing pier hike bike joy surf side bird butterfly trail blue water high trail way surf side beach restaurants site of battle of Texas Revolution fort velasce embark on birding adventure there are more than 200 varieties of brids surfside much quieter than Galveston one of clearest beaches in the area much more friendly than Myrtle beach swimmers should avoid ocean
We will never get bored with hearing from you, Khatoon!
Great video but pronunciation of things need help🤣
Thanks Andrea. Local pronunciations can be tough, and we looked up local pronunciations for this video in particular, namely how locals say "Brazos". Still, when we're not from somewhere we'll also get them wrong, just like folks visiting our home area and trying to pronounce places like "Tooele" and "Hurricane."
Wish we could have met. Interesting videos. We live in Lake Jackson! And it is Brazos with a short “a” like in “at”. 🤣✅
@@barbarapatzke7605 We actually looked it up prior to editing the video, and went with this list: texasalmanac.com/sites/default/files/images/PronunWeb18.pdf
Apparently we still managed to screw it up. 😁