PORT ARANSAS, TEXAS

Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island, reached by causeway and free, 24-hour ferry service is one of the most popular tourist destinations on Gulf Coast. English settler built a ranch house on site 1855 and it was later developed as fishing village. Summer visitors swell population by thousands. Hotels, motels, resorts, bait and tackle shops, superb open beaches, shrimp boat port, U.S. Coast Guard Station. Port Aransas lies along the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail which extends from Brownsville to Orange along the Texas coast. The trail is cosponsored by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and the Texas Department of Transportation..