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Very interesting. As always there are inherent risks anytime you travel off road. Remember that your best friend in the world is a buddy with a winch.There was one year on Padre Island the tide brought in a ton of seaweed that piled up at the edge of the surf. High tide would come in and the seaweed would get buried by the sand but leave a squishy cavity underneath. Low tide, the sand would dry up, and it was just as smooth and indistinguishable as everywhere else. It was impossible to see where these pockets were and a lot of locals who had been going up and down the beach to fish for years would sink to the framerails on vehicles that did great in the sand otherwise, and most of them were close enough to be submerged at high tide. It was like playing minesweeper with a truck. Only way to safely traverse the beach was to stay high up by the dunes where the seaweed never got buried. I travelled the entire 70 miles of beach pulling people out that weekend before the park issued a warning about it. I doubt stuff like that happens very often on any beach, but it sucks when it does.
Actually in the list of recovery gear I should have added my hard and soft shackles and a strap. Unfortunately when I was in the park there weren't any Jeeps and I don't know if even the big side by sides could have pulled me out.
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