TxAgs92

Wow...sounds like a real jerk. We were lucky enough to end up with about 1/4 mile between us and anybody else in either direction. We had an ovenbird and a Canada Warbler hunting insects under our truck and inside our shade canopy, watched stingrays feeding in the shallows, had coyotes walking around at dusk and just generally had a really nice time right up until the storm hit. We contemplated staying in a hotel sunday night, but had an entire truckbed full of sandy muddy camping gear that we would not have wanted to leave in the truck overnight. Plus, we knew we were going to have a full day's work cleaning and drying out gear when we got home so we dragged the busted shade canopy out of the water and threw it in the dumpster on the way out.

That storm was a mean one. If your girlfriend was able to hold the canopy in place, you must not have caught as bad of a part of it as we did. We had lightning hitting within a mile, blinding rain, 60+mph winds from two different directions during the storm, and pea to dime sized hail falling. With steel poles on the canopy, the last thing I was going to do was stand on the sand trying to hold one upright in a lightning storm.

All we could do was sit in the truck and watch it get taken down. We had it guy roped out pretty well on 4 of the 5 corners to cover the wind directions we had been getting wind from all weekend. The worst winds of the storm turned and came from the direction we only had it staked down on and that was all it took. The tent managed to stay upright, but at one point it was bent over about double, and the wind was blowing a wall of water across the top of the sand and it blew right up the side of the tent under the rain fly and in through the tent windows.

I did very little fishing this trip...just wanted to relax and rest. On sunday afternoon, it looked like jacks and mackerel were working hard outside the third bar straight out from us. Anybody with a kayak would have had some awesome fishing just before the storm got there.