South Padre Island Birding And Nature Center Live Cam

Isla Blanca is the beach at the southern tip of South Padre Island, a barrier island off the coast of Texas. The camera looks along the sand towards the jetties at the pass.

Padre Island is the longest barrier island in the world, running about 180 kilometres up the Texas coast and cut in two by a dredged channel. The pass in the picture is the only opening at this end of it.

Across the water at Boca Chica is the SpaceX launch site. Test flights of the largest rocket ever built go up a few kilometres south of this beach, and the road and the shore are closed each time one does.