GRAND THINGS TO DO AND EXPERIENCE
SO MANY FUN AND FABULOUS THINGS TO DO! Grand Caribbean is just a quick ride away from so many activities. Below are just a few ideas of all the marvelous things you can do. Enjoy, but don't forget your sunscreen!
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The USS Lexington arrived at Corpus Christi beach in 1992 as a result of active fundraising, strong community support, and the world’s oldest aircraft carrier has since served as a naval aviation museum, educational facility, and popular area tourist attraction.
Through exhibits, shows and presentations, education programs, wildlife rescue, and other immersive programs, we're building a brighter future for the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean, and beyond.
9 holes of links-style golf, perfect for the occasional golfer but with challenging tee boxes for the pros. Newly added is the LOOP, a 3-hole short course playing 85-100 yards, designed for those just starting out as well as experts looking to sharpen their short game.
< PADRE ISLAND NATIONAL SEASHORE, NATIONAL PARK
Padre Island National Seashore separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Laguna Madre, one of a few hypersaline lagoons in the world. The park protects 70 miles of coastline, dunes, prairies, and wind tidal flats teeming with life. It is a safe nesting ground for the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle and a haven for over 380 bird species. It also has a rich history, including the Spanish shipwrecks of 1554.
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With six sites along the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail: the Joan and Scott Holt Paradise Pond, Port Aransas Nature Preserve, South Jetty, Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center, UTMSI Wetlands Education Center, and Mustang Island State Park, Port ‘A’ hosts many must-see lookouts for avid birders and wildlife photographers. Boardwalks and observation towers are built over wetlands with vegetation pockets specially designed to attract birds.
Port Aransas fishing has been iconic ever since the early days of sport fishing. And while it originally made its name for its once incredible Tarpon fishery (when we say made a name, we mean that quite literally – it actually used to be called Tarpon), it is now home to a fleet of boats targeting Redfish and Trout in the bays and Tuna and more offshore.
Texas SandFest — the largest Native-Sand Sculpture Competition in the USA — is an internationally recognized 3-day family event that draws sculptors and tens of thousands of visitors from around the world each year to Port Aransas. Join us this year for some amazing sand sculptures, food, live music, kids activities — and shopping for jewelry, arts & crafts, clothing, furniture, souvenirs & more in the vendor area.
The Whooping Crane Festival celebrates the annual return of the cranes to their wintering habitat at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. The Texas Coastal Bend is the only place where you can see the world’s last naturally-occurring population of Whooping Cranes.
Offering a variety of interactive entertainment aboard our unique 70' pirate ship! The pirate ship sails the waters of Aransas Bay just outside of Corpus Christi, Texas. Our pirate crew entertains with activities that include sword fighting, music, and dancing.
Schlitterbahn Corpus Christi offers Texas something unique in the world of waterparks – a river system with four distinct flavors: lazy, rapid, wavy, and wild. Built to stretch across our beautiful Corpus Christi island property, our river is over two miles long. Much like a real Texas river, it features sections of everything from relaxing float to fun rapids. And the water park has the Schlitterbahn innovative extras like Sky Blaster and Bahn Bay Blasters – our two uphill water coasters, the Boogie Bahn - our inland surfing ride, and the Torrent – our wave river system.
We’re proud to be a family-owned unique confectionary experience that has kept customers coming back year after year for our tasty treats. When you’re here for a visit on the island, we’d love to see you!
