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Jan 21, 2013 - Day 189 - Goose Island State Park, Texas

Today is not quite as warm as yesterday but still nice. We went in search of cranes and found blue herons, egrets, buzzards, ibis, gulls, ducks and finally 2 whooping cranes. Strangely, we have seen no geese. We then explored the park to the wooded area called "The Big Tree" that has a 1000 year old live oak tree. It is huge, more wide than tall, with many branches. Have a look at Garry's pictures to see what I mean. We went out to a fishing pier that extends a long way out into the bay but water is not very deep. We have seen several...

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The Wandering Nunns

Jul 7, 2012 - Goose Island

We spent 7 days at Goose Island State Park in Rockport, Texas, July 7-13. Since we went after the 4th, the park was pretty empty and therefore quiet. We camped in the wooded area, site 153. With the rain and mosquitoes aside we were able to get in a couple days of fishing. We caught some trout, catfish, ladyfish, and 1 black drum, but not big enough to keep so back in the water they went. Kayla and Kevin came to visit and fish with us for two days. We had a great time with them, very glad they were able to come down and spend a couple days...

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3 Pugs RV Adventures

Jun 26, 2012 - Goose Island Texas State Park.

The pictures for this day were from Goose Island a Texas State Park. We did a lot of fishing there. We also see a 1000 year old oak tree. I managed to hook myself in the back of the head with one hook each from the two treble hooks on a fishing plug. Sally was able to remove them so we had to go to an urgent care facility to get them out.We found out that was a good idea since the area has flesh eating bacteria in the salt water and I had to take antibiotics for 10 days. Mother in law caught the first fish, Devin caught the largest fish...

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Texas2012

Jun 15, 2012 - Cypress Bend

Cypress Bend on the Guadalupe in Sisterdale TX has a private RV Park right on the river. Great small park with only 6 available rv spots and numerous tent camping spots. RV spots have electric and water and they have a dump station on your way out. They have a nice bbq pit area, bathrooms with shower, etc...

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3 Pugs RV Adventures

Feb 27, 2011 - Goose Island State Park

Arrived here Friday and were given a campsite on the beach, somewhat windy but pleasant, not a site you'd want to occupy it for long. Didn't bother us because we were off the beach a lot of the time. Weather cloudy/misty in the early a.m. - sun after 10:00 a.m and temp in the high 20's. Windy on the beach all the time. We have marvelous luck with rare bird sightings! A Mexican bird has wandered north, a Yellow-faced Grassquit, and people are arriving from points far and near to see it. Some waiting days for a glimpse, others having no luck...

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Mar 27, 2010 - Whoopers

It was another beautiful day today in Rockport, TX… The temps were in the 70’s and partly cloudy… That also means partly sunny so we headed for the sunny parts…. Our first place to visit this morning was the Visitors Center at Rockport Pier… Good choice.. It turned out that there were lots of things going on in that area today. Right next to the pier is the Rockport Park.. Today there was a Market going on and you know how we like that.. It consisted of many booths of homemade items that were in very good taste… Lots of jewelry, wood...

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Billandhelen/2010

Nov 2, 2009 - Millennium Tree

A thousand years of storms have not conquered this oak - Sunday and Monday, November 1 and 2 On Sunday afternoon we checked out of Mustang Island State Park and drove north to the ferry landing, where we made the easy crossing from Port Aransas to Aransas Pass. Our destination was Goose Island, another State Park north of Rockport. The 44 mile drive got us there an hour later, and we scored a campsite with a nice little cabana that overlooked the bay. The bay is inshore of the barrier islands, and in the absence of storms it is placid and...

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2009 Spring 2 Fall

Jan 13, 2007 - A Big Tree

A busy day.......we have been going almost solidly since about 11:00 AM this morning; it is now almost 9:00 PM. We will likely be experimenting for several months yet to find the right frequency for doing laundry. With an original hope that we could go three weeks or longer, we found that we had to do laundry today on our twelfth day. Our greatest needs were some of Vicki's clothes & bath linens. We can handle the linens situation by bringing more from the house when we return there. We may need to supplement Vicki's inventory of...

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