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[OOC][PLOT] The Fifth Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals
RE: [OOC][PLOT] The Fifth Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals
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Okay, did we ever decide on where it was going to be held?  It looks like your implying that the party takes place at Blossom.  But maybe, just for funsies, we can set up a day trip ("Now you're thinking with Portals(c).") to the Padre Island National Seashore on the day after Christmas.  It hit 78 degrees in the afternoon of the 26th - a nice, breezy day out on the beach.

That water is warm, too.  The Gulf Coast Current keeps it at about 85 degrees so swimming is definitely an option.  With it being a national park it's kept fairly clean, but trash from shrimping boats does tend to wash up.  It's been a bit of an ongoing battle.  Visitors are encouraged to help by packing out more than they take into the park.  Rip currents are a danger, but undertow is rare - anyone can escape by simply swimming parallel to the shore. (EDIT: Also a hazard - the Portuguese Man-O-War jellyfish that float on the surface tend to wash-up. Fortunately, they're easy to spot.)

The park is sparsely populated in the winter.  Most of what you find there at that time of year are the die-hard fishermen.  Go down far enough past the 4x4 Vehicle Warning* and you'll have no trouble finding a large swath of shoreline where your nearest neighbors are a mile away.  This will no doubt impress the hell out of the Japanese transplants who are used to heavily crowded beaches that are small in size - let alone how pleasant the weather is the day after Christmas.

Ben will likely spend a good deal of the time there just relaxing as he bobs in the surf, thinking about how nice it is that the kids get to enjoy what he did as a child and wondering if he'll be able to do this in the future.

* At the 20 mile mark - past this point anything that isn't a 4x4 is liable to get stuck in the soft sand, but the next ten miles after this isn't usually too bad.  Stay in the sweet spot where the sand is damp and you'll be fine provided you don't try anything harebrained.


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RE: [OOC][PLOT] The Fifth Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals - by Black Aeronaut - 08-12-2019, 12:44 PM

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