Flock On

08/12/2024

08/07/2024

Cast a line and catch some father-son bonding time! 🎣🌊

📸 Peyton Acosta

07/12/2024

07/12/2024

Parks & Rec Weekly Update -July 12, 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/cityofportaransas/weekly-update-5690240

07/12/2024

A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchling release is scheduled for Sunday, July 14, 2024, at 6:45am on Malaquite Beach. Here are a few things to consider!

⚠️ IF THERE IS NO UPDATE TO THIS POST, THAT MEANS THAT THE HATCHLING RELEASE IS HAPPENING AS PLANNED. ⚠️

📞 Call the Hatchling Hotline at (361) 949-7163 before you drive out to the seashore to make sure the release is happening. The hotline is a recorded message you can call anytime day or night.

🌩️ Hatchling releases may be cancelled if the turtles have not hatched on the expected date, due to bad weather (ex. pouring rain, lightning on the beach, high winds), extreme high tides, or flooding over roadways, etc.

💲 Park entrance fees are required to enter the park year-round. To save time, purchase your entrance pass online BEFORE coming to the park.

🎟️ The $10 per vehicle one-day pass expires at midnight on the date of purchase. Do not purchase this pass the night before the hatchling release as it will be expired in the morning. Purchase your $10 per vehicle one-day pass the morning of the hatchling release only AFTER calling the calling the Hatchling Hotline to verify the release is happening.

🪪 Annual and lifetime pass holders do not need to pay the park entrance fee but must present their pass and ID at the entrance station.

🚗 Expect delays of up to 30-minutes entering the park. Hatchling releases take place on Malaquite Beach in front of the Malaquite Visitor Center. The visitor center is located 15-minutes south of the park entrance station. Once you arrive at the release site, you must park in a parking lot, walk across the visitor center deck (where the restrooms are located), down the ramp and out to the beach. Driving on Malaquite Beach to the hatchling release site is not permitted. If you have not been to the park before, take some time to look at a map of the park, and look over driving directions.

🐕‍🦺 Please leave your pets at home. Trained service animals, authorized under the ADA are allowed.

❓ For more information about how to prepare to attend a release, please visit go.nps.gov/HatchlingRelease

07/12/2024

07/11/2024

Port Aransas Tx beach house availability:

Discounted rates!

July 14-17
July 21-22
July 31-Aug 1

Situated by the sea, this vacation home is within a 15-minute walk of Port Aransas Beach and Holiday Beach. Port Aransas Birding Center and Horace Caldwell Pier are also within 2 mi (3 km).

07/07/2024

Come back and enjoy the island!

Visitors will be welcomed back to Port Aransas starting at 8 a.m. tomorrow, Monday, July 8, according to Mayor WEndy Moore. Ferries remain closed at this time, but Moore is in talks with the U.S. Coast Guard and the ferry system regarding resuming ferry operations. Moore said the Coast Guard indicat...

07/07/2024

Shortys is the official Hurricane Party Headquarters in Port Aransas. The Liqour will be flowing and the beer cold. Jim Dugan playing music at 4 followed by Ty Dietz. We will be serving up jambalaya at 3:00. Come be a part of history at the oldest and friendliest. Hope to see you there….

07/07/2024

06/28/2024

It's a sea turtle doubleheader!

A Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchling release is scheduled for Friday, June 28, 2024, and Saturday, June 29, 2024, at 6:45am on Malaquite Beach. Here are a few things to consider!

⚠️ IF THERE IS NO UPDATE TO THIS POST, THAT MEANS THAT THE HATCHLING RELEASE IS HAPPENING AS PLANNED. ⚠️

📞 Call the Hatchling Hotline at (361) 949-7163 before you drive out to the seashore to make sure the release is happening. The hotline is a recorded message you can call anytime day or night.

🌩️ Hatchling releases may be cancelled if the turtles have not hatched on the expected date, due to bad weather (ex. pouring rain, lightning on the beach, high winds), extreme high tides, or flooding over roadways, etc.

💲 Park entrance fees are required to enter the park year-round. To save time, purchase your entrance pass online BEFORE coming to the park.

🎟️ The $10 per vehicle one-day pass expires at midnight on the date of purchase. Do not purchase this pass the night before the hatchling release as it will be expired in the morning. Purchase your $10 per vehicle one-day pass the morning of the hatchling release only AFTER calling the calling the Hatchling Hotline to verify the release is happening.

🪪 Annual and lifetime pass holders do not need to pay the park entrance fee but must present their pass and ID at the entrance station.

🚗 Expect delays of up to 30-minutes entering the park. Hatchling releases take place on Malaquite Beach in front of the Malaquite Visitor Center. The visitor center is located 15-minutes south of the park entrance station. Once you arrive at the release site, you must park in a parking lot, walk across the visitor center deck (where the restrooms are located), down the ramp and out to the beach. Driving on Malaquite Beach to the hatchling release site is not permitted. If you have not been to the park before, take some time to look at a map of the park, and look over driving directions.

🐕‍🦺 Please leave your pets at home. Trained service animals, authorized under the ADA are allowed.

❓ For more information about how to prepare to attend a release, please visit go.nps.gov/HatchlingRelease

06/28/2024

Turtle release!

UPDATE: Due to the incoming hurricane/tropical storm and expected beach and weather conditions next week, the sea turtle release has been cancelled. We apologize and thank everyone for being understanding! We hope to see you all at the next one!

06/28/2024

Parks & Rec Weekly Update -June 28. 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/cityofportaransas/weekly-update-5445596

06/28/2024

Discounted rates for July!
July 1st - 3rd $295 a night
July 7th - 11th $310 a night
July 14th - 17th $310 a night
July 21st - 25th $310 a night
July 28th - Aug 1st $310 a night

Situated by the sea, this vacation home is within a 15-minute walk of Port Aransas Beach and Holiday Beach. Port Aransas Birding Center and Horace Caldwell Pier are also within 2 mi (3 km).

06/22/2024

06/22/2024

Updated your calendars! Juan C and the Key Limes will now be joining us on August 1st!

06/22/2024

Here comes the bride! MALES ORDER BRIDES by Billy St. John is the must-see melodrama this summer. Don't miss the fun! Tickets: https://bit.ly/3Vr1Go5. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m.

Actually, we should say brides — four of them supposedly, to marry a quartet of love-starved citizens. The husbands-to-be include two bachelors, lumberjack (and hero) Forrest Green and saloon owner Lucky Betts, and two widowers, grizzled prospector Grubby Shurtz and respectable banker C.D. Nichols. If only their brides were real! The unscrupulous and shifty lawyer, Big Harry Deal, has hired an actress, Starr Billings, to impersonate all four fiancés. The hilarious climax with all four fiancés seen simultaneously (in a frenzy of costume changes!) will make you think twice before saying ’I do’ — at least ’til you know to whom!

CAST:

Grubby Shurtz: KEN YARBROUGH
Calico Shurtz: MORGAN MILLIGAN
C.D. Nichols: DAVID OGLE
Forrest Green: JONAH MUGUIRA
Lucky Betts: ANDREW MCKAMEY
Big Harry Deal: RICK ADAMS
Starr Billings: MEAGHAN SETTERBO
Tiara Rhinestone: SHELBY FERRIS
Trinket La Glitz: KATHY HIGGINS
Treasure Chest: CLARE ADAMS
Dirty Socks: RANDALL HIGGINS
Jack Lumber: TAMMY WEIDEMANN
Greta Greenburg: GLENDA MCCORMICK
Barely There/Emcee: EMILY REGIER
Alotta Keys/Pianist: TANYA STEGALL

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Director: DEBRA AGUILAR
Lights/Sound: BRAYDEN JAKE

06/18/2024

With Port Aransas Parks & Rec Department – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

06/17/2024

Get the best view of the annual Port Aransas fireworks display while cruising around the Lydia Ann Channel. Reserve your experience now. This trip will sell out.

Book Now ➡ https://qrs.ly/g5fw2zh

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06/15/2024

A flamingo has decided to make Port Aransas its new home! 🦩

Next time you visit, see if you can spot this beautiful bird visiting during this unique time.

📸 Roy Frette

06/15/2024

July availability with discounted rates!!!

Come have some fun in the sun.

Check out this place in Port Aransas I found on Vrbo:

06/15/2024

Meet Boots! 🐊

Boots is a 14-foot alligator living his best life at the Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center. Boots is a Port A local and people love to go visit him and take his photo. There is an observation area at Leonabelle for birds, fish, and of course, Boots. Enjoy walking down the boardwalk and seeing the panoramic views the center has to offer.

06/15/2024

MacDaddy's BBQ Beach Packs make beaching easy! Order online 📲 and pick up on your way to the beach!