My instructor was very knowledgeable and I felt confident holding a firearm after the LTC class…read more Totally recommend!

Enjoyed my relaxing at Jim's Pier while Lutz was in the bay kayaking this beautiful Sunday morning…read more While Lutz kayaked, I viewed their store and then went next door to have a beer and some fried avocado. A variety of items offered to fishermen and fisher women. Why is it that fishermen is an accepted homonym and fisherwomen is auto corrected? Anyway, the store is similar to a general store as offers up sodas, chips, and other snacks as well as toys and clothing and more items for anyone who fishes. Taking a look around, I didn't see anything that I was needing or wanting at the moment, but it was nice to greeted as we walked in the place. Friendly service.

Our family's been coming to & fishing out of Jim's Pier for decades! We have years of photos with…read moreour catches at Jim's Pier. Great shop & staff is eager, friendly & helpful.

Dive Center that was recommended to us by Fairmont hotel... And now recommended to you by me :D…read more Professional and very nice crew. They spoke French, Italian and English. We paid 50 euro per person per dive (we brought our own equipment). Pierre Frolla who seemed to be running this place got the world record of apnea diving with variable weight in 2011: 123m deep..! Our dive site was a wreck.. It was very cool to see this wreck - a site worth seeing and great visibility - and to be surrounded by apnea divers at 30m depth... :o amazing that these people could do that! I was happy to be blowing bubbles using my tank though :)

The weather was really horrible and the fish weren't biting, but that's fishing. The crew did their…read morebest and gave us all the time we paid for. No complaints. I'll give it another go in the future.

Went for some night fishing. $12 to rent a pole. Saw lots of dolphins and caught a bunch of fish!!…read more24 hr dock. Nice cleaning station. Kids loved it!!

Nice state park! Loved seeing all the green jays and chácalas! It's also cool to get the birding…read moreapp and see what bird it identified from the sounds. We liked renting the bikes to ride around the park. But you can't go off on the trails and the bikes are in need of some tlc but still worth it! My kids loved the coloring tables inside the visitor center.

Rio Grande Valley State Park! This place is in sort of…read morethese marshes, low lying fields in the RGV outside of Brownsville. We came in for a hike along their shortest trail, which wound through scrub brush, mesquite trees and the overwhelming sound of cicadas. We saw lots of armadillos on our hike, and several strange, menacing looking birds. The park has a nice ranger station with a gift shop where you can rent binoculars and get patches and other gear that you'll need to camp and hike along the park's many trails. Be sure to reserve ahead of time on the website. The park is quiet, other than the insects. When we went, it has hot as heck, and nobody else was on the trails. They do offer a few bird blinds, or places to relax in some shade and observe the birds. There seemed to be a planetarium or telescope or something, but the armadillos were preventing us from investigating this.

This is a park in Harlingen where you truly want to feel like you're in the wilderness. It's a…read moregreat park if you want some more shade but it can still get pretty muggy during the summer. I've seen lots of bright and colorful birds here especially when they migrate down during the colder season. There are some stagnant ponds inside so you have to walk in a bit further to get to the flowing Arroyo Colorado River. I love the various little gardens/sanctuaries throughout the park (such as an edible garden and a peace walk). Be careful of coming here after a rain (our shoes were CAKED with mud) and beware of the multiple ant hills! There are little sheds here that look kind of sketch full of graffiti in vulgar language you don't want your kid to see lol so I wish they can maintain it a bit better. Overall it's a great nature escape and I've come back multiple times!

Visitor beware This could be a beautiful oasis but…read moreunfortunately is a painful walk due to the lack of proper maintenance. The water smells pretty bad and the park is covered in trash and huge pieces of glass on one of the trails. It's ok for a quick one time walk but is not a place I will like to visit frequently.

Dalton was amazing! We booked a dolphin/sunset/fireworks tour at the last minute and was so happy…read morewe did. He is very knowledgeable about everything SPI and was enjoyable to chat with during our cruise. I am so glad we did the smaller boat tour rather than the large boats, we played our own music and were able to chat and enjoy the scenery.

Captain Dalton made our boating trip a blast! He is a local of spi so he was very knowledgeable…read moreabout everything and we had a fun time shelling! We found incredible shells and saw dolphins on our way out during a beautiful sunset. We will book him again to watch the Space X launch that's in perfect view from the water.

Great little area to spend 30-40 minutes looking around. A lot of interesting stuffed animals to…read moresee on their show grounds. Nice walk platform to look out at the wildlife unfortunately there weren't any wildlife the day we stopped but I'm sure at times people see a nice amount of them. They had good description boards as you walked through the path and up the boardwalk, letting you know what was in the area and what to look out for. Clean bathrooms as well. Also had a little souvenir shop.

Worth a visit when you're passing by, but it is a little small, and doesn't take very long to walk…read morethrough.