Staff of La Quinta works Hard to Prevent Beach Erosion
Every morning about this time of the year, South Padre Island beaches are covered in sargassum (commonly known as seaweed) washed up onto the beach overnight from the gulf. If this sargassum is not collected, it is simply washed away the next night, and replaced by more the following morning. The staff of the La Quinta Inn & Suites has now taken the initiative of collecting the sargassum from the waterfront adjacent to their hotel and forming small piles along their sea wall. This allows for small sand dunes to form directly behind their hotel, ultimately slowing the sand erosion that has been gradually reducing the size of Gulf Beaches year after year.
