Escape to Padre Island: A Weekend Retreat at Bali County Park
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- čas přidán 12. 10. 2019
- We interrupt our #BeyondTX videos to share our recent weekend trip to Padre Island on the Texas Gulf Coast. RV Camping options down on Padre range from free beach camping to full hookups for rigs of all sizes. We went down planning to try beach camping, but the high tide warnings changed our minds.
In this video, we show you Malaquite Campground which offers dry camping with a view of the gulf inside Padre Island National Seashore. Then we move up the coast about 12 miles to Padre Bali County Park so we can plug the rig in and run the air conditioners at night (it was still pretty warm during our visit).
We can't wait to go back down and spend a couple of weeks in the area when it cools down a bit! Watch for another Padre Island video in the future!
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Thanks for joining us for a few fun days down on Padre Island! We look forward to visiting again soon. Thanks to our friend Marc at Grand Adventure (czcams.com/users/grandadventure) for the drone lessons and drone footage clips. Be sure to check out his channel if you haven't already. And if you missed last week's Wingin' It! with Marc, you can watch it here: czcams.com/video/LfEytK0gr80/video.html. See y'all next Sunday!
If you have any info on the butlers or the couple they befriended that were staying nearby in the rv park please contact kleberg county sherrifs department
Thanks for the video. Y'all are a lovely couple.
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Great job, guys, thanks!
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awesome video!! we really liked the crisp & neat places you showed us on the video...
Thanks for watching!
We live just down the road from there. That's where we always go to hang out on the beach.
Nice!
When you topped the little hill and the view expanded to see the Beach, I could smell the fresh salt air! Just gorgeous!
We look forward to going back one of these days. We'd love to spend more time exploring the national seashore!
We love watching you guys on your many adventures!
Thanks so much Nelson!
Thanks for sharing all the details of this awesome park on Padre Island! Great job!
Thanks so much Christy!
Cool video. Love having y’all back in Texas. Happy camping and safe travels
Thanks Mark! It's good to be back! :)
Loved the video! It's still weird being on someone else's camera. LOL! And Tom flew that drone like a pro -- we'll put in a good word with Santa, we have an "in" with him, you know. We'll have our own episode from this stop coming up in a couple of weeks, including our interview with RV Texas Y'all. After Tom & Stacie left a cold front did come through, and we moved to boondocking on North Beach within PINS. Seriously, that was a lifetime bucket list experience. We'll let you folks know when we air it!
LOL Marc! It’s good to have a connection with Santa! Tom promises to be extra good. Glad y’all made it down to the beach and have survived the tides.
@@rvamericayall it was close...really close (like, under the trailer close the first night) but after that the tides were no big deal. Got some kayaking in at Bird Beach Basin, watched the nearly full moon rise over the ocean and Zoe got to run like a banshee as I enjoyed listening to Siouxsie & The Banshees on the stereo after dinner. It doesn't get much better than that!
Great job! Watching from Killeen Texas
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Y'all are awesome !! keep up the good work !
Thank you Dallas!
That area is a bucket list item for me, thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! We look forward to going back.
Great video... hope to make it down to Padre Island to camp. So happy to see you guys with Marc! I think he's great. Great people getting together!
Thanks Johanna, Marc is great!
Thank you so much for the lovely vid. I especially appreciate that you showed the dog boots and explained why your little one was wearing them.
Thanks Kelly. We're glad you enjoyed the video. Star loves her boots.
Thanks Guys great job safe travels enjoy all your videos 👍🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🐶
Thank you Ronnie! 😁
Excellent we will be there in a couple of weeks!!....safe travels.
Awesome! Enjoy Ray!
Great video! Thank you!
Thank you!
I was excited when I saw this video pop up. Padre Island is on our list of places to stop on our up coming trip. Thanks for sharing! ~Lucy
Hey Lucy! We look forward to going back down there very soon!
You will LOVE the drone pic’s!! You quickly get used to and better at flying because they are fairly easy to fly. I only watch great folks like you on CZcams, but we do have many friends who constantly tell us they love to see drone shots on our FB posts on our travels...In Brownsville now and heading to Galveston...I’m keeping an eye out for you two...LOL
Hey Rich! We had a lot of fun trying out Marc’s drone. Maybe we’ll pick one up one of these days. Hope to cross paths somewhere. Enjoy the RGV!
Great vid ya'll, thanks for the info.
Thanks so much! You're welcome.
I’ve spent a week in that area and it is beautiful. You guys enjoy your stay there.👍☕️🍩
Thank you David! We can't wait to go back!
Great Video!!!!!
We already booked Galveston for New Years Eve week,
My wife and I we’re planning Padre Island in March,
This helps us sooo much!!
Love seeing you back in our beautiful state of Texas!!!
Thanks Cliff! Glad to help. Galveston should be great that week. We plan to go back to Padre sometime in the next few months.
Thanks for the film guys, this is why we camp, good people.Love the gulf coast, we are mostly on the Alabama Florida side hopefully get to see yall in a campground somewhere, thanks again
Thanks for watching and for the note, Byron. We look forward to exploring the Alabama and Florida coasts one of these days. Hope to see y'all out there somewhere.
Great Video interesting scenery, hope is going well.
Thanks David! Hope things are great with you.
Great video as always, thanks for mentioning the price, stay safe be happy.
Thank you Andy! You’re welcome.
I have wanted to go down there for some time. I'm glad u posted this because now I know what it is I'm going to stick with trees thanks
Great video y'all. Cheers from South Padre Island. 🍻🍻🤙🤙🏄♂️🏄♂️🌊🌊💯
Thanks Marcus! We look forward to making it down to South Padre. 😁🏖😎👍
I definitely liked this one. You showed me places I have not been. I have been to Padre Island, South Padre Island and Galveston, but did not know about the RV parks. Hope you are doing well and having fun wherever you are now.
Thanks so much Danny!
We have Padre Island in our plans for January or February. Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome! We hope to go back down there soon.
Padre Bali looks great! Nice video guys. Looking forward to heading there in the not to distant future. Hi Starr and Marc 👋🏼
Thanks Petra! Enjoy your trip down there. :)
That pier got destroyed a couple of years ago by a hurricane I just stayed there last week, August 2022. They are in the process of taking it down, but they are supposed to build another one. It might take a while though. I have a small Winnebago Rialta motorhome, and I camped right on the beach. At night, you have the beach all to yourself. Mainly because hardly anybody camps overnight on the beach. It’s too windy. I was able to run my Honda generator all night long and have A/C. The nearest neighbor was a few hundred yards away. Most people that camp on the beach, either sleep in their car, or put up a tent. A pass to camp on the beach is $12, and it’s good for the whole year! You can camp for 3 days in a row, and then you have to move, and you can camp another 3 days in a row. I don’t recommend a big rig like yours to camp on the beach, because if you get stuck, it’s going to cost a fortune to get pulled out. I don’t recommend a popup either, it’s too windy. But if you have a tear drop, or a small trailer with a 4x4 truck, or a Rialta like mine, it is perfect for camping. Most people that camp on the beach stay in an SUV. If you try it in a tent, it better be a good one, or it will get blown away. I usually camp close to that pier, because there are restrooms and showers close to that pier, near where you stayed in your motorhome. Showers are for rinsing off only, no soap alowd. I put this information out there in case some of your viewers want to try camping on the beach. It’s cheap, but the wind is brutal, but the sunrise on the surf is worth it. You can buy the pass at any gas station on the island.
Thanks for sharing this! Happy camping!
Wow! What a difference a year makes. Just one year ago you had to move to a park with electric hook ups just to run you air conditioning. This year, only a couple hours up the coast with no power or water!! Ugh! Thankful for your review. I have only tent camped in that park, but have spent a lot more time catching really big fish on the Bob Hall pier. Blessings 🙏🏻
My wife and I just love your channel and we camp in our little home made tear drop camper with our kayaks, when we are not at work we build or camp and fish.
Sounds awesome! We love the teardrop campers. Would love to see a pic of yours. We appreciate y’all watching. 😁
What kind of kayaks r u using ? I wish there was more people on here fishing from a kayak
@@randywilson6869 We each have a Santee Sport 126 by Hurricane Kayaks: amzn.to/2Cp7Wog
Thanks!
Love Padre, Great video as always, thank you for sharing with us, I was up in the area last month at Gulf Waters RV Resort extra nice.. Back in South Padre Island enjoying my Tiffin. Build an RV base camp in Winter Haven Resort in Brownsville. Hope all is well with you guys, I always appreciate the efforts you put in your video's, You guys are the best and I wish you well. Take Care friends, hope to cross paths one day. Don
Thank you so much Don! Glad to hear that you are enjoying your base camp at Winter Haven. We need to make it down to South Padre one of these days. Thanks for the recommendation on Gulf Waters RV Resort. Good to know. We look forward to crossing paths one of these days. :) Have a great day!
looks great
We enjoyed it Allan
@@rvamericayall im glad house is getting closer will go the market this april
Hey guys! Love the vid and TX! Thanks for the input on the park not allowing you to dogbone down to 30 amp. 11 months on the road, when we were in campgrounds they'd ask... 50 or 30... I would say, "50 is best but we can do with 30" - they always stuck us in a premium 50. Thanks for my take-a-way. I guess some parks just don't allow it. Never knew it! Thanks again y'all.
Thanks! We had never come across that either.
nice videos nice couple thanks for all your work to post this videos people like you make youtube wonderful
Thank you Hector
Great video Guy's never been to south padre island. look like awesome places to stay
Thanks Geo! There are a lot of great options for exploring Padre Island. We were on North Padre Island in this video. South Padre Island is a few hours further south. We look forward spending more time down there. Interesting fact: Padre Island National Seashore is "The Longest Stretch of Undeveloped Barrier Island in the World".
@@rvamericayall and it was just one island until 1964, when it was split in two to make the Port Richardson Cut.
Must have been the part of Padre Island that my parents took me to when we visited my Aunt and Uncle in Corpus in the 60’s. We slept on the beach while my Dad and Uncle fished off the pier. Got up early to pick up starfish and sand dollars. I need to get down to that part of Texas again. Thanks for the video.
That would make sense, Bob. This part of Padre is just across from Corpus. Sounds like a fun time!
Beautiful park! Time to pullout the smoker.
Definitely! 😁
Does 30amp space offer 110 for us tear drop lil guys? Oh! Don’t forget doggy poop bags on your walks! Love the TJ! Good memories to this old kid at heart 💜
Thanks Gary! I (Stacie) bought our TJ new back in 1999. Love it! Yes, there are also 110 connections.
Thanks for the campground review! Padre Island has been on our list, but twice we've had to cancel because of storms. Maybe late next spring?? And maybe you'll be nearby! :-)
That would be awesome! We'd love to get back down that way and catch up with y'all.
I like it when u let people know the price to me I thank that's nice thank u the we love the beach
Thank you Rhonda.
Great view from both Bali and Seashore! I've never been further than the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, so I thought the entire state of Texas was the same. Thank you for expanding my education 😊👍 Until your recent trip to South Dakota with Grammy Kay, I never wondered about where Star slept. When Grammy Kay travels with you, where does Star sleep? How long did it take to get her used to wearing booties?
Hey Lina! Thanks! When Grammy is with us, Star sleeps next to our bed or in her dog bed next to the couch. She adjusted amazingly fast to the booties. Within the first 20 minutes she was walking normally and not paying attention to them.
Awesome video. Just be careful when you get down on the sand. You have to go pretty fast where the pavement ends and find a good spot to turn around. I've seen plenty of Rigs of your size down there within the first few miles. The sand is well-packed and you shouldn't have a problem.
Thanks! Not sure we’re brave enough to risk it.
@@rvamericayall you'd be fine. We just spent the past couple of days on North Beach at PINS, and the sand is solid. I didn't even have to put the truck in 4WD. We'll have that episode -- complete with our interview with y'all -- in a couple of weeks. It's a monster, 30 minutes long. We just finished the edit today.
Wish I had known y'all would have been down here. I would have loved to have met up with y'all for a day. Balli is a great campground...I spent 2 weeks there when I came down from Arlington to help with Harvey recovery before we moved down here. Keep your eyes open for the one in Port Aransas to reopen because it is going to be even nicer than Balli.
Thanks for the heads up! We look forward to seeing the Port A park. This ended up being just a quick trip. We look forward to spending more time down there in the future.
@@rvamericayall let me know when y'all are coming down again so we can meet up. In all honesty, October is the best time of year to come down...not too hot and not too cold. Also, remember Texas Sandfest is either 3rd or 4th weekend in April in Port A and you really want to experience that.
We definitely want to get to Sandfest one of these years!
You’re lucky you came in 2019. A large part of Bob Hall Pier was destroyed by one of the hurricanes or tropical storms that came through here in the summer of 2020. Very sad.
We saw that on the news Maggie. Hope it returns soon.
Beautiful I miss living at the beach
Hi Annamay! We always enjoy spending time on the coast.
i like it
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Loved the view of the Gulf and yes it has been hot but did get a cool front come through. Best nights sleep ever. That would be a great place to go if it were not all to hot. Stacie do you think Tom needs a go fund me for the drone. haha They are nice but expensive for a good one. Take care and stay safe. Thanks and see ya in the next one. Love y'all
When that front came through we left Padre Balli for boondocking on North Beach in PINS. That video will be available in a few weeks, complete with our interview with RV Texas Y'all.
LOL Leann! 😂
We look forward to it, Marc!
@@rvamericayall as to we, friends!
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Thanks Mike! 😁
PINS has been on my wish list for a long time, maybe next spring. Lifelong Florida resident & there is no beaches here like that. Developers & realtors sold us out. I had to go to N. Carolina for my beach fix this year.
Great place Gary! We hope to make it back down there soon. Spring would be a great time to visit.
Hi Folks, great video. Did you ever go back to the National Seashore Malaquite Campground? We searched and didn’t find a video b
We didn’t, we meant to go the next year but didn’t get there, sorry!
Good Morning Y'all ☕️! I've been there a couple of times a few years back, but we prefer the Galveston/Kemah area just because we have more to do there. Looks like the hurricane had no real effect to the Padre Island area! Safe Travels Y'all!
Mornin' Ben! We love all of the things to do around Galveston and Kemah too. We were only down on Padre Island for a couple of days on this trip, so we didn't get to explore too much. We look forward to going back soon so we can check more things out. Safe travels and happy camping! :)
@@rvamericayall I hope Tom's been good this year so Santa🎅 will being him a drone! I've been looking at one to add on my list too!😂
@@BenNstyle LOL! We'll see. :)
@@BenNstyle @RVTexasYall Ho ho ho!
@@GrandAdventure 🎅 LOL!
That’s on the list!! Wow. $50 a night for a parking lot. 😬
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What months are the best to come to Texas? Not too hot but not too cold? Love your videos as always.
Hi Rayetta! It depends a lot on what parts of Texas you want to visit (since it covers so many miles). As a general rule: late October thru December and then late February thru May are typically pretty awesome as far as weather goes.
Hello again, why don`t they put the refills of diesel and DEF on the left. Then they sit on the pump on the fuel island at a truckstop. Mush easier to refuel then !
I do wish the videos did not have such loud music. Cant hear what your saying very well. Love to see Padre again !
Sorry about that Dee. We’ll definitely be going back to Padre.
That is indeed the Cedar Creek Camper owned by New Hampshire couple James and Michelle Butler, the couple rented the RV space A-9 from Sept. 30 until Oct. 14 at the Padre Balli Park Office. Adam Curtis Williams, 33, and Amanda Noverr, 32 killed James and Michelle Butler within days of your stay at the RV Park. The couples remains were found on October 27th at Texas beach marker 263 on Padre Island National Seashore just south of Padre Bali Park
A real tragedy.
Just wondering how far from the beach the newer section is?? This was a great video.
Hi Cathy.Thank you. It's not far, just a bit longer walk.
Question? Can you roll up your sunblocker shad screen with your awning, or do you have to remove and reinstall it every move?
Hi Kate, Great question. We leave ours installed and roll it up with the awning. It has not been a problem for us so far. We try to be careful, as we are rolling it up, to make sure that it doesn't get wrinkled or roll unevenly. Especially in wind. When it is really windy (like it was in Padre), we use a broom to help keep it hanging straight down as it rolls up.
I wonder if the restaurant is still standing since the hurricane. Or if the RV park is still available.
We think the restaurant survived. The extended pier past the restaurant suffered damage. Not sure if any of it is open right now.
Gotta have my power. Ok I can run one of my A.C. units off our batteries. We will run it to take out some of the humidity.
Nice to be able to run an A/C off of batteries. That’s a goal for our future.
Were you ever able to make it back, and dry camp on the beach proper?
Padre Island is our first major stop after we finish the shakedown of our new Momentum 399th toy hauler. We're very interested in learning about your experiences camping right on the beach, as that's our intention.
Hey Chuck! We love camping at the beach, but we've decided not to camp on the beach. A lot of folks love it, but we've seen folks get stuck in the sand. We've seen the tide come right up to (and sometimes under) RVs, and we know folks who've had to replace their slide motors because sand blew into them. So we'll take the view from a pad in a campground (like the Malaquite Campground inside South Padre Island National Seashore) and walk on the beach. Enjoy your new Momentum!
@@rvamericayall getting stuck in the sand or trapped by incoming tides are indeed concerning. I'm hoping to gather as much information from those that have actually done it before we take the leap. Unfortunately, our budget doesn't permit a lot of paid camping... around 25-30%. So, we're going to have to get creative... or I need to make more $$ in retirement 😢
Please don't take that the wrong way. I wasn't intending for it to appear critical.
Don’t worry. We didn’t take it as critical at all. If you get National Parks Senior Pass, you’ll get 1/2 price camping in National Parks. Which would make it $7/ night in the Malaquite Campground in the Padre Island National Seashore. We paid $14 to stay there. We were right behind the dunes with an unobstructed view of the Gulf. Not sure if there are size restrictions. Here’s the campground website: www.nps.gov/pais/planyourvisit/malaquite_campground.htm
planning on being there in a few weeks... have you seen any public showers anywhere? or do you know if you can pay and take a shower at a state park? asking for a friend 🤽♂️👓. Great video!
Yes, Padre Bali County Park has showers. Have fun!
You said you were uncomfortable sleeping, could you have used the generator to run air conditioning?
You can’t run the generator during the night, Richard. The parks don’t allow it. This experience is one of the reasons we added solar and lithium to our RV: czcams.com/video/CFg-ZfNS4n8/video.html . With our new system we can run our ACs without running our generator.
We are renting a RV and going to Padre Island the end of June do you think we should stay where there is electrical hook up? Or boondock on the the beach? How will the weather be at the end of June?
Hi Mindy, it will be pretty warm at the end of June. We would choose to have electrical hookups during the summer. It was too warm to be comfortable at night when the wind died down during our stay. That was in October.
@@rvamericayall thanks for replying
Could you share what video equipment you use in making your videos
Sure Rusty! We listed all of the equipment we used for filming this video in its description.
Is that North Padre, near Corpus Christi?
Yes it is, Michael.
Doesn't your generator power the AC?
Yep but you can’t run the generator from 8pm- 8am. and it was hot with no breeze!
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Hope you can fix it. I have some Questions for ya. That needs to stay private and confidential
We’ll look into it. Thanks
Cell signal?
Yes we did
Why is diesel and DEF filling often sitting on each side of an RV. On a truck stop diesel and DEF are on the same pump on fuel island.
Hey Erik. Our motorhome has fuel fill on both sides, but DEF fill is only on the driver side.
Note to self, avoid parking near a Tent Trailer with loud Generator. 😉
LOL Hey Doug! We thought the same thing at first, but they did not run it much. And when they were running theirs, we were also running ours.
@@rvamericayall I now look at what kind of generators and where they're located since we will be neighbors before I park. Honda generators are the best (quietest) IMO
@@dougd9944 Good to know on the Hondas. Thanks
@@rvamericayall Love you guys 👍😁
@@dougd9944 Thanks! :)
Is this still opened after the murders of the Butler's??
You leave foot prints for me to fallow TY
You’re welcome
Are y’all from TEXAS AND WERE y’all born and raised in Texas????? Where y’all originally from?
We were both born in Houston.
RV Texas Y'all ohhhh wow that’s cool Did y’all meet in high school
Maybe cut the background music when talking/ interviewing?
Thanks for the feedback Bert.
Nice informative video of Padre island. Background music is too loud :-{
Thank you for the feedback Richard.
Enjoyed the video but hate music when y’all are talking could hardly hear Marc.
Thank you Sheryl
RV Texas Y'all sorry hate is a strong word. Lol I actually like your music and sounds compared to a lot of others. Also would love if y’all would give prices on the places you stay. Would be very helpful! Love y’all!
@@rvtimetraveler Thanks Sheryl! :) We're trying to remember to mention prices more often. We paid $50/night for our 50amp full hookup site at Padre Bali Park. The 30amp/water sites were $25/night.
Just be aware that its illegal to fly drones in state and federal parks.
We don’t but thanks for the tip!
Why do you continue to sell it even after admitting that its too hot and humid? You cant stay the night because its too hot and humid. Its a concrete parking lot, LMAO.
We weren’t in a parking lot, our site had its own pad & space. The 30amp sites are in the parking lot. Thanks for watching.
On our surround sound, half the time the music drowns out your speech and it just plain annoying. We have to turn the volume up to hear speech then the music just blares. We enjoy your videos but the music is annoying.
Thank you for the feedback Dennis.