River’s End Campground - Tybee Island, Georgia (November 2019)

River’s End was not supposed to be the end of our WBCCI 2019 Southeast Coast Caravan, but it happened. There was one more stop before the caravan officially ended, but we didn’t make it there.

Sign at entrance welcoming our caravan

Sign at the campground

Things started off about as normal as it gets on the road. We arrived at the campground and were led to our site by the park’s staff. This turned out to be very helpful because our site had several difficult trees along the path. The park staff person was familiar with how to slip in dodging the trees and provided some helpful hints as we parked Rosie, our Airstream trailer.

Our site in this campground

Once we were safely parked in our site, we noticed that it was a little larger than most sites in that campground. Most sites were very close together and too shallow to hold a 25 foot rig and tow vehicle. Our site was deep enough that we could hitch up without blocking the road. 

We were thankful we were not in the sites along the access road. Trailers in those sites were as close to the road as you could get. They were also packed in about as close as the laws of physics and human interaction allows.  We were happy our site was in the middle of the campground. 

We visited Fort Pulaski National Monument while camping there. The fort was built in 1847 and saw action during the Civil War. We thought this was one of the better preserved forts we have visited from this era.

The moat around Fort Pulaski

Inside the fort

A canon inside the fort

There is a monument to John Wesley near the fort. John Wesley was an evangelist and religious leader of a movement that became known as the Methodist Church. Having grown up in Methodist parsonages, it was interesting to see that monument.

John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Church

There was a lighthouse near the campground. We didn’t have a chance to explore it.

The Tybee Island Lighthouse

Here are some specifics about this campground:

• Our site was a back-in
• Our site was paved with gravel 
• We had to use leveling tools to correct a left-to-right lean
• Our site had 20, 30 and 50 amp electrical service
• Our site had a water connection 
• Our site had a sewer connection
• There was a dump station in the park 
• The bathhouse near our site was clean and well maintained 
• The campground provided basic cable TV service 
• We did not check to see if we could pick up any stations using Rosie’s TV antenna 
• AT&T placed two bars of service for voice and data over our site 
• We were unable to find a WiFi service at this campground 

We were in this campground for a day and a half instead of three. We left the caravan a few days early due to health reasons. We hated to leave early, but we knew we needed to head home. 

It seems that all of the WBCCI caravans we have been on have been great and this was no exception. We enjoyed being with that group and hope to see them on other Airstream caravans.