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Quartermoon
Nov 30, 2013Explorer
Took off the week of Thanksgiving and spent 10 days camping! Including our first night at a Walmart!
We went to Goose Island State Park, just outside of Rockport, TX. Nice little park, friendly staff, clean restrooms. No full hookups so you need a way to dump your tanks every so often. We stayed at the Bayfront sites, which are literally steps from the water. One row of sites is right on the water, one row is across the road. Note - the beach here is not one for swimming, so don't bring the kids for that purpose. Lots of jellyfish too. The primary thing here is fishing, either right out your front door, or out on the pier. Also, the boat ramp was right on the inlet behind us, and the airboats would begin launching at about 5 am each morning as duck hunters headed out.
Here is our site #17, which is on the row across the road. There is no real pad, so you just put your trailer however you want. We positioned ours to block the wind to our shelter.

This is the view out the front. The row of sites right across from us is literally 10 feet from the water. There is a concrete bulkhead.

This is the view of the back side. There was a big grassy area that we liked because there was lots of room to play with the dog.

Standing by the water, looking towards the pier at sunrise.

We will definitely be back.
We went to Goose Island State Park, just outside of Rockport, TX. Nice little park, friendly staff, clean restrooms. No full hookups so you need a way to dump your tanks every so often. We stayed at the Bayfront sites, which are literally steps from the water. One row of sites is right on the water, one row is across the road. Note - the beach here is not one for swimming, so don't bring the kids for that purpose. Lots of jellyfish too. The primary thing here is fishing, either right out your front door, or out on the pier. Also, the boat ramp was right on the inlet behind us, and the airboats would begin launching at about 5 am each morning as duck hunters headed out.
Here is our site #17, which is on the row across the road. There is no real pad, so you just put your trailer however you want. We positioned ours to block the wind to our shelter.

This is the view out the front. The row of sites right across from us is literally 10 feet from the water. There is a concrete bulkhead.

This is the view of the back side. There was a big grassy area that we liked because there was lots of room to play with the dog.

Standing by the water, looking towards the pier at sunrise.

We will definitely be back.
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