On my trip to Rhode Island, I ended up working 12-hour night shifts. So during the day I was way more interested in sleeping than I was seeing the sites of New England.

So on Sunday morning after I got off work, I checked out of my hotel as fast as I could and drove off to a place that a nurse told me about. It’s called Beavertail State Park and is located on an island. It took about 20-30 minutes to drive there from Warwick and it was a gorgeous day. The sky was clear and it was crisp, and the sun was rising enough that I could get it in my picture with the ocean.

I parked my car and went walking along the edge of the cliff and took pictures of the two bays and the Atlantic Ocean (I’ve never seen it before). There were a lot of people fishing and walking around. I even got some pictures of monarch butterflies. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay long because I had a plane to catch but I will always remember the image. The only thing I thought was funny was that it didn’t smell like the ocean to me.

I would love to go back to New England and drive around it more in the fall.