My family and I visited this beach a few years ago on a family vacation and loved it. We like that it's a drive-up beach where you park in the sand and set up your spot right in front of your vehicle. Makes hauling a bunch of stuff and kids around way easier. Even though this is the same coast line as Galveston, where we usually vacation, the water is a little nicer and the sand is much nicer. It is actually sandy and not compacted like the sand in Galveston. Due to this, we decided to vacation in Corpus Christi again this year and go to this same beach. However, due to the new oil rigs that popped up since we were last here, this visit wasn't quite as pleasant. There are massive oil pockets floating in the water and all along the beach. Imagine my surprise when not even 10 minutes in the water my 6-month old baby is smudged with oil. This was her first trip to the beach and we barely spent any time in the water because after the initial pocket of oil that smeared on her skin, I barely allowed her back into the water and chose to sit out with her while the rest of our family enjoyed the water as best they could while trying to avoid large oil pockets. The oil stained our clothes and skin and we had to basically bathe in Dawn dish soap to get it off our skin. It won't come out of our clothes, though, and most of them were brand new bathing suits bought specially for this trip.