Dutch Island Harbor, July 30, 2008

We are waiting until Friday before we head north to Maine. There is a low pressure system that will go across the area tonight and Thursday. Yesterday we took the Jamestown Ferry and crossed the East Passage to Newport, Rhode Island. The ferry stopped at Rose Island Lighthouse so we explored the island and the refurbished (built around 1870 and refurbished to 1912) lighthouse. Currently the lighthouse is open to visitors as well as people renting the place for a vacation week. The island was used by the army for munition storage during WWII. An old army barracks is also on the island but it was never fully completed nor used. We haled the ferry with a yellow flag and it stopped and took us across Newport harbor, past the Nantucket Lightship which was anchored in the harbor and now a "private yacht". We spent the rest of the day looking at the tourist shops and art galleries in the town of Newport.


"The Jamestown Ferry"














"Rose Island Lighthouse"

We had a picnic lunch on this lighthouse island.

Gordon leaping on the rocks that surround the lighthouse.

The Nantucket lightship was a surprise to see.