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)
“We crossed a deep and wide bay which makes eastward north of Kineo, leaving an island on our left, and keeping to the eastern side of the lake. This way or that led to some Tomhegan or Socatarian stream, up which the Indian had hunted, and whither I longed to go. The last name, however, had a bogus sound, too much like sectarian for me, as if a missionary had tampered with it; but I knew that the Indians were very liberal. I think I should have inclined to the Tomhegan first.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)