Sorry ya'll. But Galveston beaches are disgusting.

He then called me a spolied bitch but I'm right. That place is nasty.

I've lived in Houston for 25 years and I've only been to Galveston once. Give me the white sandy beaches of Alabama and Florida any day.

Galveston beaches are natural because they haven't shipped in Sand like other beaches. Florida has better beaches but then again they don't have the Mississippi river dumping debris on their beaches.

Don't bother with texas beaches, [Cali] has beautiful sand and women.

Lol natural

I agree with op the whole city is a breeding ground for herion/crack users and they shit shower and shave in the water

I was born in Dallas and I've been to Galveston several times and I agree with the OP. The water is dirty as fuck with a shit ton of people in the summer months so it's not really a beach to go and relax and enjoy the scenery on.. It's more of a last minute, "I'm broke as hell but I really wanna just 'say' I went to a beach but secretly am dying for Maui" kind of thinking......

Last Edited by Rockarchy on 07/20/2016 04:35 PM

Exactly!

The sand is full of fecal matter! It stinks! Not a place to take a non druggie date.

the mississippi river flow to the right when
it enters the gulf thus the dirty water.

did you not get the memo?

No I did not. The Mississippi River is probably sewer water by the time it runs into the gulf. A mile down where we were at the beach was a high alert for high fecal bacteria.

The best beaches in Texas are on Padre Island and South Padre island. Everyone knows that around here, who would bother to go to Galveston?

Luv this song

Central Gulf Coast Florida, Clearwater & south best beaches ever!

Last Edited by ThereRMeds4That on 07/20/2016 06:45 PM

Come to beaches in South Carolina.

I was born in Galveston, my grandfather was a big part of the mob there in the 60-90's, still have a lot of family that lives there, so of course I visit often - I will say this - Pharmy's are the worst there - everyone there is on pharmy's thanks to the pill mills in TX - It's now a very poor town, but back in the day, it was a very rich place, much more beautiful than it is now. If you ever go, MUST eat Queen's BBQ~ but the dirty water is from the gulf and Mississippi river mixing. There are times when the water is crystal blue/green, but not often, and it has been taken over by Mexicans on vacation because Fertitta made it into a crap tourist town by building the failure Pleasure Pier full of commercial crap.
I so wish I could go back and develop Galveston again, it has the structure and architecture, it just needs to be properly redeveloped again, it has the potential of being like Charleston SC, if someone with the vision can afford to make it happen. Tilman F wouldnt listen to me and made it a crap touristy place now with trashy people everywhere.

Or NC too! Both are fabulous and relaxing! Im a Carolina girl now, have been since the late 90's!

Chucktown here. Isle of Palms and Sullivans island is great.

Hi there neighbor!

What are some good beaches in NC?

Happily, Galveston won't exist that much longer.
But neither will southern Florida.

filthy mexicorns...

Yes, we saw the Pleasure Pier. So shitty.

Mother earth knows that too...why do you think she sends Hurricanes there every other year...to clean up that shit stained beach..

It flows to the east hence the dirty beaches in Mississippi and Dauphin Island, AL. The rivers flowing into Mobile Bay deflect the dirty Mississippi River silt, hence why you have the whiter beaches from Baldwin County/Gulf Shores AL all the way through Florida.

Galveston beaches are ugly because of the Houston ship channel and all ships constantly churning up the mud and them spilling their fuel in the canal as well that washes up on Galveston beaches.

The prettier beaches are further south in Corpus and Padre.

Wrightsville Beach, anything in the Outer Banks- very nice and family friendly, not trashy touristy! Good luck and have fun!

He is right about that.

We just spent a week at Jamaica Beach on Galveston Island and it was pretty nice.

We rented a 3bd/2 ba house on a channel which had it's own boat dock and fishing deck. We caught fish and blue crabs.

Nice clean beach down there on the west end of the island with plenty of eye candy and far less people than up on the east end, up by Pleasure Pier.

We drove the minivan right down to the water damn near.

We had a great time and I would recommend that area to my friends.

Last Edited by TheGasMan II on 09/02/2016 06:50 PM

I live near Galveston. Lived in Kona for 2 years. Obviously no comparison. But I've had great times on Galveston over the past 23 years including the beach. Yeah..its not Hawaii or destin, but it's ok