Goat Island is an island located between Mt. Pleasant, SC and Isle of Palms, SC, South Carolina, USA, on the Intracoastal Waterway. It is one of the smallest islands of the region, being only as large as a neighborhood street. There is another "Goat Island" in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, that is approximately 20,000 square feet. It is called Goat Island because every spring a man named Bubba Love (a local celebrity) and few friends place some goats on the islands. Tourists walking along the Marshwalk (a boardwalk that overlooks the marsh) can watch the goats while they take in the sunsets. Goat Island has added peacocks to the population.
Coordinates: 32°48′23″N 79°45′57″W / 32.8062867°N 79.7659144°W / 32.8062867; -79.7659144
Famous quotes containing the words goat and/or island:
“My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,
Shall with their goat feet dance an antic hay.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
“The island dreams under the dawn
And great boughs drop tranquillity;
The peahens dance on a smooth lawn,
A parrot sways upon a tree,
Raging at his own image in the enamelled sea.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)