Goose Island State Park Campground

Goose Island State Park was a great place to camp!  When we arrived all the beach front sites were taken but it was probably for the best as it looked much much windier out there and there wasn’t much for tent spots either.  Also with the frightening amount of rust my bike developed during this one trip to the coast, had we left it right on the shore it could have disintegrated to nothing.

From the online reviews I’d read while planning the trip a month earlier I found out that camping in the tree line was a bit risky as you’re offering yourself up as an all you can eat buffet for the millions of mosquitoes in the woods, supposedly the beach has much fewer mosquitoes.  We came well prepared with bug repellent spray, bug wipes, and decided to try one of those new fangled battery powered Off! Clip On jobs.  I was a bit skeptical that the fan powered repellent would work but after everything else was ineffective it really did seem to work.  While siting still it worked wonders, while walking it has somewhat of a limited range and they’d still bite me around the ankles.  It was nice because while we were gone or sleeping we could clip it to the top of the tent inside to keep the mosquitoes out.   Most of the skeeters were going for me at first and barely touched Cece so she decided she didn’t want one of the fan repellent devices.   I think she regrets that now, after I had one on and we went for a hike through the woods on a trail and ended up getting totally lost, all the mosquitoes ate her alive and left me untouched.

Camping in the trees was excellent, nice shade from the sun and mostly peaceful with few neighbors during the week.  Like always all the campers were friendly as we all talked about our trips so far and all their animals wanted to meet Cece. As the weekend approached we got group of  people in a travel trailer next to us that would come in drunk at midnight and continue to laugh and party around the bon fire well into 4am the next morning while everyone in the campground was trying to sleep. What a bunch of A-holes, it only takes a few inconsiderate people to ruin it for everyone else.  All our camper friends we’d made during the week complained to us about them the next day.     I felt bad about it but after they did it again they got a rude awakening at sunup from the bike turned around so the pipes were facing their trailer 6 feet away.  As we broke camp and left we got a few thumbs up from the other campers who were enjoying the sunrise drinking coffee LOL

We loved Goose Island State Park campground.  We need to come back to Port Aransas next year and we may stay here again.  Other than the rude neighbors a few nights the park was peaceful and relaxing. There was the skeeters but not near as bad as some of the other places that we’d been like Yellowstone or Flaming Gorge, oh my god!   I’m not sure if we’ll stay here again next time, as much as we loved it, it was somewhat of an inconvenient drive to anywhere we wanted to go.