Georgia on my…Magnus? Day 19

Sunday, March 1 2026

I saw a Swallow-tailed kite over the campground. Cool.

We left late on purpose—we had a 4pm check-in time at a COE park on a Sunday. Which could be disastrous….

But it wasn’t. There was no issue with us checking in early. Plus, it was NOT a COE park—it was called “Coe Landing” which confused me—it was actually a county park.  I don’t believe we spoke to or saw a single human host or other sort of worker. We just drove in and found our site, and our name was on the post.

 

It was a lovely little tiny campground, right beside a river.  The sites alongside the river, which of course included our site, had balcony/porches with rails.  Very old wood but strong and quite durable.

 

The actual parking areas were tight and very unlevel, but our site 15 pull-thru was plenty long enough for us with room to spare in the front. Gravel pad. Ed stressed at first because he saw no hope for a starlink signal and his life would be misery without the constant noise of crap TV. But starlink pulled thru, on the picnic table pointing through the trees out toward the lake.

There were birds all over. Including chickens. And a rooster. A very noisy rooster.  And across the river (or was it a lake?) there were Limpkins making a constant racket.

 

Review COE LANDING campground.

Very nice although probably impossible for anything much longer than us. We were in a 35’ motorhome, and our site 15 pull-thru was plenty long enough for our it and our toad. It was crooked and unlevel, but not at all difficult.  The road through the campground was very narrow with trees on the sides but we didn’t scrape. A trailer or small fifth wheel came in during the night and backed into the site next to us. It took them several tries, but they made it.

The lake was pretty trashy down around the water and boat ramp, but the campground had obviously been tidied up. It was nice.

Our site was in heavy tree cover, but we set the Starlink on the picnic table and pointed it through the trees out toward the lake. It had outages but worked well enough for streaming TV.

Our site surface was gravel; we had a deck with a picnic table and barbeque grill. The water pressure was good and the 50-amp electricity worked ok. The dump station was easy to get into but had a sharp turn coming out, however, it wasn’t too sharp for us even with the toad attached.  The only water faucet for tank cleanout was labeled as potable water. I would NOT use it to fill my tanks. It was too close to the sewer and most likely people would have used it for tank cleanout, with a possibility of backflow.  But of course there was water at the sites so there would be no reason to use it for drinking.

It's a very pretty place, great for fishing though I didn’t actually see anyone catching any. There’s a nice little boat ramp and lots of docks and fishing piers.

Limpkins were common—I heard them calling across the river and also watched one foraging along the bank on my side.