Keith, thanks for sharing your vacation story and pictures.
Padre Island and Laguna Madre are one of my most favorite places – my little slice of heaven.

Earlier in the month we spent a few days at South/South Padre Island where my son has an ocean front vacation beach home

At one time I had a surface/sub-surface detailed knowledge of every foot of Padre Island as well as Baffin Bay.

A word of caution – a fishing guide that run Baffin Bay from Corpus, or from Riviera Beach, to Baffin Bay at 65 mph is on a suicide mission.
You are dodging mudflats and spoil banks from Corpus Christi, and reefs at Point of Rocks at the mouth of Baffin Bay. \:\(

I’ve made four trips to Padre the last 12 months – I love it... \:\)