Beach Bar Patio, South Padre Island Live Cam

A beachfront patio with tables and blue loungers looks across low dunes to the Gulf of Mexico surf on South Padre Island, Texas. A turquoise beach bar stands on the left, and a fenced walkway leads through the dunes down to the sand.

This stretch of sand lies in the northern half of the town, east of the 7000 block of Padre Boulevard. South Padre Island occupies the southern end of Padre Island and is separated from the Texas mainland by the shallow Laguna Madre. The beaches on its Gulf side are wide and sandy, and the town is a well-known spring break destination.

From an elevated spot on a beachfront resort, the camera faces east over the patio, so the tables, loungers and the bar fill the foreground. A lifeguard tower stands on the sand beyond the dunes, and people walking along the waterline show how wide the beach is.