Neal’s Port A Guidebook
Food scene
My favorite eaterys on the island
Bacon wrapped chicken bits and all the pizzas are great. Site at the bar and look up to see 2 classic fully functional Stingray Corvettes. TVs, pool tables and outside seating are a bonas.
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Stingrays Taphouse and Grill
401 Beach StBacon wrapped chicken bits and all the pizzas are great. Site at the bar and look up to see 2 classic fully functional Stingray Corvettes. TVs, pool tables and outside seating are a bonas.
Right on the marina watch the boats come in from a day of fishing while eating great seafood. Open air restaurant right on the marina.
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Virginia's On the Bay
815 Trout StRight on the marina watch the boats come in from a day of fishing while eating great seafood. Open air restaurant right on the marina.
Tortuga's Saltwater Grill
429 N Alister StOne of my personal favorites. Great seafood.
Great place for all you can eat pizza. They also have a game room for the kids.
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Port A Pizzeria
407 East Avenue GGreat place for all you can eat pizza. They also have a game room for the kids.
Port A Beer Hut and swing bar. My favorite place to relax swing on the rope chairs and have a cold beer. Bring cash though, thats all they take.
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Port A Beach Buggies
307 W Avenue GPort A Beer Hut and swing bar. My favorite place to relax swing on the rope chairs and have a cold beer. Bring cash though, thats all they take.
Sightseeing
If you want something totally different this hole in the wall is it. It is the home, twice a month, to Texas' only belt sander races. Crazy people soope up their belt sanders and race. Beer is cheap and the pizza takes a long time to get becasue they only have one over. That is part of the charm. You can't be in a hurry at The Gaff.
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The Gaff
323 Beach StIf you want something totally different this hole in the wall is it. It is the home, twice a month, to Texas' only belt sander races. Crazy people soope up their belt sanders and race. Beer is cheap and the pizza takes a long time to get becasue they only have one over. That is part of the charm. You can't be in a hurry at The Gaff.
Horace Caldwell Pier
Port Aransas Beach RoadFishing and eating
Great place to watch the big ships come in to Corpus Christi Bay
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Port Aransas Jetty
321 N on the BeachGreat place to watch the big ships come in to Corpus Christi Bay
University of Texas Marine Science Institute
750 Channel View DrMarine science studies.
Best Walnut Carmel ever. If you can't find a candy you like there you are really hard to please.
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Winton's Island Candy
601 S Alister StBest Walnut Carmel ever. If you can't find a candy you like there you are really hard to please.
Neighborhoods
In 1720 the French explorer Pierre-Jean de Béranger was commissioned to explore St. Bernard Bay 'Matagorda Bay' to establish a colony for France along its shores. Jean took an old Spanish ship that had been captured in Florida during the war with Spain, christened it St. Joseph, and his travels resulted in the rediscovery of the Aransas Pass. In 1739, Governor Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra named the pass Aránzazu Pass on his map of 1739, because it served the Aránzazu fort. The name was altered to Aransas on the map of a Captain Monroe of the ship Amos Wright in 1833. Port Aransas was a location of pirates in the early 19th century. From about 1800 to the early 1820s, the Gulf Coast was a haunt of pirate ships searching for riches. Capt. Jean Lafitte and his buccaneers spent time on the Texas coast; Galveston owed its start to him and Mustang Island was one of his favorite haunts. Capt. Jean Lafitte used Mustang Island as a place to make camp and, according to legend, a place to hide their treasure. Local lore tells of pirate treasure buried in Port Aransas. The treasure chest is supposedly marked by a Spanish silver dagger. It is believed the dagger is laid on its side with silver spike driven through the hilt, securing the location.? European explorers and pirates left horse on the Island. Herds of wild horses. "Mustangs" rambled over plush rangelands of the island when first people settled there, hence the name Mustang Island.
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Port Aransas
In 1720 the French explorer Pierre-Jean de Béranger was commissioned to explore St. Bernard Bay 'Matagorda Bay' to establish a colony for France along its shores. Jean took an old Spanish ship that had been captured in Florida during the war with Spain, christened it St. Joseph, and his travels resulted in the rediscovery of the Aransas Pass. In 1739, Governor Prudencio de Orobio y Basterra named the pass Aránzazu Pass on his map of 1739, because it served the Aránzazu fort. The name was altered to Aransas on the map of a Captain Monroe of the ship Amos Wright in 1833. Port Aransas was a location of pirates in the early 19th century. From about 1800 to the early 1820s, the Gulf Coast was a haunt of pirate ships searching for riches. Capt. Jean Lafitte and his buccaneers spent time on the Texas coast; Galveston owed its start to him and Mustang Island was one of his favorite haunts. Capt. Jean Lafitte used Mustang Island as a place to make camp and, according to legend, a place to hide their treasure. Local lore tells of pirate treasure buried in Port Aransas. The treasure chest is supposedly marked by a Spanish silver dagger. It is believed the dagger is laid on its side with silver spike driven through the hilt, securing the location.? European explorers and pirates left horse on the Island. Herds of wild horses. "Mustangs" rambled over plush rangelands of the island when first people settled there, hence the name Mustang Island.