Block Island

Go once. One visit is all you’ll need. Rent a moped, take it up to the Northern lighthouse, then back down to the Southeastern lighthouse, then spend time in the old town district before heading back to the mainland.

I went to the Oyster Festival – the best ever!
Check out the schedule and plan your trip around that.

I never made it here last summer in my quest to see as many RI beaches as possible. I hear it’s very touristy and crowded, so it never really made my priority list. I kinda planned on taking a visiting friend there in late August, but he visited the one weekend that it rained constantly. I’m excited by the fact that you have to take a ferry to get there (or fly, but let’s be serious). I’d like to try to go next spring, when it gets nice and before all the tourists swarm there.

A great place to visit before the summer tourists show up. We spent our anniversary there and really enjoyed staying in a little B&B.

2 weddings in 2 years. Both times were excelent. What a great time. Looking forward to comin back here too. So relaxing.

I’ve been going here since i was a kid and it has changed in that it has been discovered! The island is really a great northeast weekend getaway but i avoid it now during the peak season. Best time to go is right before the summer or better still right after labor day. The prices go down drastically and it is once again a serene place to go biking, hiking, walking or just laying by the beach.

As for the beach, there is a great area that is completely secluded …all u need to do is find the painted rcok and follow the long trail down through the dunes. Hint: it is off of the mohegan bluffs.

Also, if u like to sail this is a great place to dock.

Early mornings this fellow, Aldo, would come around the mooring field in a Whaler – singing! and selling fresh pastries and doughnuts. It was great and we looked forward to seeing him every summer. We would row the ‘dink’ in to the town dock and go exploring for hours; swimming in the salt water pool, and finding shells and exotic shorelines treats along the way.

It has been many years since those summers. My father sold his sailboats in favor of a power boat he and our mother could manage alone. My sister moved to the desert with her husband (a move, frankly, I will never understand.) As for me, I live a short walk from the marina and the yacht club where we essentially grew up. In the winter I have a waterview of the harbor where all our boats were kept, and the summer memories of Aldo and Block Island…I would love to go back there in time and space, again.

i love it here, and now i fly to places like this!

I have a couple of tracel tips. Not many, mind you…

Great surf!

Totally cute. And I was so glad to be on land!!! (Seasick)