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South Padre Island, which lies at the southern tip of the 100-milelong Padre Island, is a community four miles long and perhaps a mile wide, with the Gulf of Mexico to its east and the Laguna Madre to its west. It is attached to the mainland by a causeway that connects it to the town of Port Isabel, 100 miles south of Corpus Christi and 10 miles from the Mexican border.

Boosters of South Padre and the rest of Padre Island have proclaimed that its beaches are ''better than can be found anywhere in the United States.'' Even allowing for Texas hyperbole, the boosters have a point.

The beaches are very wide - about 100 yards - and the sand is both fine and firm. They are ideal for walking, for sunning, for collecting shells, and perhaps most of all for building castles. Because the gulf's tides are moderate a well-organized child, parent or grandparent can spend days building a dream project on the beach without fear that it will be washed away; only in Normandy have I seen more elaborate parapets and moats.

The women and children in our group built a castle that was excellent by our standards, although far less regal than some of those produced by our fellow beach lovers. Admiring sand castles, and taking photographs of those that are deemed of blue-ribbon quality, appears to be a custom at South Padre Island. And the castles have a protected status; no one disturbs a work in progress, even one left overnight by its builders.

Perhaps because South Padre's beaches are so attractive, the Gulf of Mexico there seems more enticing to swimmers than it does on the Florida side, and the gulf water is warm.

South Padre and its environs also attract fishing enthusiasts, many of them retired men and women in recreational vehicles who crowd the northern end of the South Padre beach. Franklin D. Roosevelt caught tarpon there in the 1930's, and each August there is the Texas International Fishing Tournament. Red snapper, scamp, grouper, redfish, speckled trout, tarpon, mackerel and pompano are among the species in nearby waters. There are charter boats available for hire, in addition to a public fishing pier on South Padre Island's bayside, and two in Port Isabel.

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