Reaching McFaddin ibn 2023, and 2WD vs. 4WD Advice

[Michael R]

Two quick questions, if y’all please, from a frequent Eighties/Nineties visitor to McFaddin, with little recent experience:

It seems to be best to enter from the Sabine Pass end. Correct?

It is feasible to use a 2WD pickup truck, with aired-down all-terrain tires, to get at least reasonably close to the traditional nude area?

Thanks, in advance, for any replies.

In the Eighties, I used a 2WD VW Bug, so, have some experience using 2WD in sand. In the Nineties, I used 4WD. I know that conditions have gotten worse, over time. I may try to buy a Toyota 4Runner, but that will probably be next year, at the soonest. I am shopping for winches, that can be plugged into 2” receivers, but may not buy one until June or July..

Unfortunately, my nude-all-day girlfriend, from the mid-Nineties, is no longer part of the equation. She was definitely turned-on by being able to “feel the breeze” all over her body. She would lose her pants, on the road trip to the beach, and then strip off her top as soon as we reached the beach. Two other lady friends, from those good decades, would not go nude, in public, preferring to using teeny weeny bikinis, but were OK if I went nude. Now retired, it is time to start doing some solo day trips, again, more frequently.

[Michael R]

I will add that I have recently become a somewhat serious bird/wildlife photographer, which is an added factor in my wanting to return to McFaddin. (I do not plan to photograph people, unless asked to do so.) notably, it is one of the above-mentioned ladyfriends, who was an avid birdwatcher, who introduced me to some of the best areas for birds, though I had earned about McFaddin from a book, published in the Eighties, with a title of something like _World Guide to Nude Beaches and Recreation_. Notably, in the Eighties, one did not need to drive all the way to the NWR, from High Island, to go nude. The traditional nude use started, on a discreet level, just a mile or two from High Island, and then got serious as soon as one passed that concrete obelisk that used to mark the county line.