Leaving Goose Island with a sigh

 Friday 1/15/2021

When I removed the front window shades to prepare for traveling, the ocean was back and it was glorious!

Ed was getting ready, with the ocean peeping behind him

And then we were leaving. Sob.

 

We arrived at Willis Creek, which was just a stop on our way and not a very nice one. Below is my review of it. It's a COE campground and well kept up, but there's not a thing to recommend it. I wished at the time, and wish even now, that I'd scheduled it as a one night stopover.  

Willis Creek review:
Okay as a overnight stop on the way to South Texas, or, on weekdays, a quiet place to hang out and get some work done. Terrain is very level; right in the middle of hayfields and grazing land. The lake is visible from most sites but not especially scenic. It might be a good spot for spring bird migration--there are low woody thickets around the lake shore, smallish trees and mud puddles in the lake.

Very level asphalt pad, plenty long enough for our 32-foot RV and toad. Hookups are 30-amp only; water pressure a little low but okay. Sites have no shelter from wind or sun but there are covered picnic tables at each. In summer it would be unbearably hot. Our site felt "backward"--situated such that the RV door and picnic table were on the opposite side from the lake, so our RV mostly blocked the lake view.

No vegetation around the sites, just mowed grass with a few small trees here and there; we could see our neighbors clearly although it didn't feel crowded. We were there on a Friday-Sunday and had the bad luck to have a next door neighbor whose music could be heard inside our RV, but most of the campers were quieter. A weekday would be fine.

The killer for me was the freakishly bright street light placed right beside our site 11. For once the stupid lights that RV'ers insist on burning all night didn't bother us because we couldn't have seen any stars anyway with that street light making it bright as day. The sites at the west end of the loop had a little natural darkness; at the east end there were bright lights at the boat ramp.

Families with small kids could have a lot of fun here--plenty of paved roads with no traffic for kids' bicycles and plenty of big fields for ball playing.

Note that I gave it 4 stars for cleanliness but I didn't use the restroom so I'm not sure. It looked fine outside and the campground itself was very tidy. But the area around the lake was full of litter and trash, which is normal for Texas.