South Padre Island, Texas

[apush]

Hi all,
I frequent this particular T-Net forum and love it. I generally hit the coin section, but I do love to metal detect. I only hit the beaches in the summer time as my job and home is on "dry land." Dang the luck. My honey & I are going to South Padre Island this summer for a week. I will hit those beaches, but have a question for anyone that has been down that way. What condos or hotels are the best? This will be our first time in this neck of the woods, so any comments would be greatly appreciated. Plan to buy one of those new Garrett all-weather detectors for the trip. Got a beach scoop just waiting to try it out. But alas, I am in the mid-section of Texas and can only hunt water during those summer months (I am an educator, so summer is the only time I have--until retirement).

apush (planning ahead)

 

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[cntrydncr1]

Hi AP! sorry I'm no help on Texas. Just starting to go there on occasion to visit my son who is a freshman at UNT. I love water and beach hunting and do mostly that now that I'm living in Florida but it isn't as much fun as relic hunting in my opinion.

I'll bet you teach AP US history?? lol I was a school counselor and remember everyone calling the class apush as one word. I've thought about that every time I would see your postings.

Nice to see more women on here who detect!
Debby

 

[Terry Soloman]

Hi all,
I frequent this particular T-Net forum and love it. I generally hit the coin section, but I do love to metal detect. I only hit the beaches in the summer time as my job and home is on "dry land." Dang the luck. My honey & I are going to South Padre Island this summer for a week. I will hit those beaches, but have a question for anyone that has been down that way. What condos or hotels are the best? This will be our first time in this neck of the woods, so any comments would be greatly appreciated. Plan to buy one of those new Garrett all-weather detectors for the trip. Got a beach scoop just waiting to try it out. But alas, I am in the mid-section of Texas and can only hunt water during those summer months (I am an educator, so summer is the only time I have--until retirement).

apush (planning ahead)

A friend of ours stayed here http://www.suntideii.com/area-map.asp and really liked it! Good Luck and BIG GOLD!

 

[DewGuru]

If your plan is to use the 'garrett all weather' machine on the salty beach, I would suggest that you rethink that. Common complaint with it, is it does not fare well in salt. Not used it myself, wouldn't know -- but talked to enough who have. Good luck whichever way ya go, get that gold!

 

[Lorrain.]

Have fun ..and good luck detecting on your vacation, apush!

Lorraine

 

[apush]

Thanks all for the sage advise. Cntrydncr1, lol, yes, I did teach APUSH for many years. I am an assistant principal now, but I do miss my teaching days.

apush

 

[WishfulThinker]

Learn to use the Map System UnivTexas Library -- Interactive Railroad Maps and Cattle Drive Trails are interesting. Takes a little digging -- learn to use Coast Guard Maps (Very Early Editions are line drawings of coast -- Modern ones are navigation charts)
Posted some info out under Texas Maps section.


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Texas Treasure Coast by Tom Townsend (Jul 1996) Good Book
Buried Treasures of Texas by W. C. Jameson (Feb 28, 2006)
Blaze Of Gold: Treasure Tales Of The Texas Coast, Mostly Of Gold That Is Buried And Ghosts Which Are Not by Dee Woods and Florence E. Shaner (Sep 10, 2010)
Ghost Towns Of Texas (Two Books)

Major Collection -- Index of Texas Maps
http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/texas/index.html



http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_texas.html

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/tex_fedforts_1848.jpg
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/forts/images/frontier49.html


http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/texas_spanish_missions.jpg

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/routes_texas_explorers.jpg
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/texas_land_grants.jpg

Interactive viewer .. magnify any area of the map... slow but works well.
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/ser...216~20055:A-New-Map-Of-Texas,-With-The-Contig

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/tex_mex_forces_1836.jpg

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/forts/images/cattletrail.html

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/atlas_texas/union_troop_movement_1863.jpg


Texas Railway Map - 1873
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4031p+rr005780))
Texas Railway Map - 1900
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g4031p+rr003040))

Texas - 1920 Military Bases
http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~worldwarone/WWI/Maps/images/MapOfCamps-5.jpg

Texas Topographic Maps -- Major Texas Cities << Look At This >>
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/texas/

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/texas/txu-pclmaps-topo-tx-galveston-1925.jpg
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/topo/texas/txu-pclmaps-topo-tx-galveston-1930.jpg

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[suprdave]

i spend some time in that area in the winter and i need to caution you on where you will be mding as many of that area beaches ar strickly off limits to mding make sure you know where you are while mding on the beach . there are maps of the area on ths forum to help. hope you find the gold because i know you already have a lot of silver from your crling. Suprdave