We took off early for Block Island, RI as the weather delay meant we only had one day there. We cruised in our usual fashion, with both John’s and me in the cabin, and Nancy on the bow taking
it all in.
Once there, we rented bikes and rode to town for lunch at Mohegan’s Café, then rode a few miles to the end of the island to take a hike in a nature preserve. After the hike, we biked back to
the boat and relaxed for a couple hours. The harbor is quite fun and unusual. It is a decent sized harbor packed with boats all "rafted" together (one boat is tied at the dock, another boat
tied to that boat an so on, so the outside boaters have to walk across the docked boat’s deck to get to shore ) as it’s such a popular destination. Everyone in the harbor and in town
speak with Jersey type accents and all extremely friendly in a very "real" way.
We cabbed to Spring House Hotel for a drink at the deck bar which is perched on a hill and has a large grassy area with spectacular views of the Atlantic. There were people having drinks enjoying
the view from Adirondack chairs while kids ran up and down the hill launching little wooden glider airplanes. After enjoying that, we cabbed to town to hunt down some t-shirts for Chloe and
Leann’s stocking stuffers (yes, already thinking about that!) from a restaurant we had seen called Three Kitten’s or Tres Gatitos and "Block Dog" shirts for all. We had success with the
kittens, but no Block Dogs, although it was fun just looking. We stumbled in to dinner at Winfield‘s around 9 p.m., then cabbed back to the harbor under a half-full red moon low on the
horizon.
Upon our return, the harbor docks were still lively, exactly as noted in the Active Captain reviews, perfect if that is what you like.
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