Wild Time in Rockport TX

I picked the RV up from storage on Monday afternoon late. Tuesday we were off for a doctor's appt. Tuesday afternoon DH put the battery on the charger and checked the tires for the right air pressure. Hmmm, the battery didn't charge right so Tuesday night DH decided he needed to get a new battery the next day.  Of course, my plan was to have the fridge cool down Tuesday night so I could transport some groceries direct from the store into the RV.  Wednesday about lunchtime the new battery was on the charger and I was off to the store to stock up for DH at home and me on a trip. After grocery shopping, clothes and other miscellaneous stuff was loaded. I was dead tired and I was too tired to load up the fridge after 9 pm.

Willy chose Thursday morning to sleep in (very unusual) so I had to hustle to get groceries in the fridge, dog crates and food loaded and be off to meet MJ to head out to Rockport. We had a good trip down to Rockport, a bit of rain but not much. So we arrived at Wilderness Oaks RV Resort mid afternoon.  They were waiting to welcome our group. We had a rally here in April 2017 but Rockport was very hard hit by Hurricane Harvey.  I knew the RV park had been back up and running since about a month after Harvey hit but we weren't sure exactly what we would find in the rest of the town.

Resort Manager Diane is great to work with for a rally. Her staff is equally eager to help. The crew of guys hustles right up when you arrive and they can get anyone in to their site no matter how good or bad you are at doing it yourself.  We found this great welcome basket waiting for us in the clubhouse.

The park has a big building with game room, kitchen/dining, and separate big room that we could use. Since we were a small group, I told Diane we would just use the kitchen/dining area and please let any other guests use the other two rooms. We had a potluck planned for that night so things were cooking while we had happy hour and visited. Everyone arrived by late afternoon.

I only managed to get one photo. Now this is a women's group but occasionally we have a spouse that is along for the ride with our rally a stop on a longer trip so we make an exception to women only once in a while. Bob and Liz (in the middle) are newly weds and this was Bob's maiden RV trip so he got to join us.

 The next morning we were off to Donutsdatrock by special request of the "blue" flamingo.

They have quite a variety of donuts as well as other breakfast items.

So we all had different choices and they served us coffee in big old non-matching coffee cups. They even came out with the pot to give us refills.

We switched out our agenda and headed to Goose Island State Park to check out the "Big Tree". Our plans are always made in jello so making changes is no problem.  Keep reading.....these are not the big tree.

This is the Big Tree with a trunk over 11 feet in diameter and 35 feet in circumference.....it is huge.  It is 44 feet tall and is over 1000 years old so it has survived hundreds of hurricanes including Harvey last year.

The mosquitoes are pretty horrible around here with the over abundance of rain here the last few weeks but, fortunately, I stuck a bottle of bug spray in the car so we all sprayed and didn't let them drive us away.