Block Island, NJ

Today we were "scheduled" to go to NYC (yeah!) but it is in the 90's and very humid .... with all the cement in the city it would be just too hot to enjoy the day so we went to Block Island, NJ instead.  It reminded me of Catalina ....  It was a pleasant day.  We took the ferry across, had lunch, walked around ... checking out the beach .... and took the ferry back.

At lunch our server was Oliver ... a resident of the island his entire life.  They have one school ... a teacher for each grade.  His graduating class had 7 students.  I asked if they were the same 7 from kindergarten; he said yes.  Margaret asked if there was "conflict" and he replied that you had to learn to get alone with everyone as it was such a tight arrangement.  The island shuts down completely during the winter except for the grocery store.  That would be an interesting, yet confining, experience I think.

There have been at least five major shipwrecks off the waters of Block Island.  The Lightburne is a favorite spot for ocean divers to this day.

Did you know.....Captain Kidd was known to frequent Block Island and many speculate that he hid at least some of his buried treasure on our shores!!