First stop was at Eatons Neck about 20nm east of Port Washington
leaving Port Washingtonbye bye skyline of NYEatons Neckthe bay of Eatons Neck the beach a female killdeer plover on her birds nest in a bed of pebbles and shell to hide the egg from preditorsour dinghy alone ashorea pretty big horseshoe crab a stroll ashore through the neighbourhood of Eatons neck
The second stop was at Port Jefferson bay
That was about half way of the Long Island Sound. A storm was coming, so we anchored to be protected from the south west winds making sure to have as less fetch as possible. Well the storm came but unfortunately the wind came from the opposite direction and we had to cope with onshore winds. Fortunately the windspeed wasn’t higher than just above 30knots.
it was nice and calm when we arrived it didn’t look very cozyit was a very uncomfortable afternoon
the next morning the bad weather was gone and everything looked just peaceful
The next stop was at East Harbour at Fishers Island
We arrived late and only stayed for the night. Had to find an anchorage in between the moorings. We left early, had a nice sailing day and arrived at Newport in the early afternoon.
East Harbour the golf area of East Harbourstill golf areathe other side of the baydusk at its bestyeaaahhhhh sailingwe saw many of those fishing boatsPoint Judith Light housearriving at Newport and passing the Castle Hill Inn
First impressions of Newport
the view from King Park to the harbour of Newportshops at Long WharfBrick Market PlaceBowen’s WharfBannister’s Wharf King Park at night, General Rochambeau pointing to where?
Tennis Hall of Fame and more
Newport had many cool house, this was one of the more maritime onesthere were also normal housesthat was the back entrance from one of the huge mansions, we did not get a sight of the mansion, it must have hidden somewhere in the vast garden another nice house , I liked the roof patternthe Tennis Hall of Fame courtsthe players all in whiteone of the well looked after grass courtswe watched those two games for a bit, they even had a refereeon the left the Hydrogen House Inn a super fancy bed and breakfast located in Newport’s Old Quarterthe old station house of Newport
The Cliff walk
on our way to find the start of the Cliff walkdead end only a few poor people lived therea view from the walka building of the Salve Regina Universitynot the worst university!!!I think that belonged as well to the universityThe Breakers, one of the vast mansions the Chinese Tea House at Marble Housethe Texan guy in Rhode Island coming closer to Lands End, the end of the walkwe made it to the end, and here too were of course more fancy houseswhat a boring garden with a terrible view, who wants to have that view?
Some more houses and a few impressions of the Bermuda race
those wood houses seemed to be very typical for New England the view from our anchoragepeople waiting for the start of the Bermuda Race at Fort Adams State Parkboats getting ready to get in perfect starting positionthe start
The day we wanted to leave…
we had our first encounter with fog! Fortunately we were still able to leave and the fog disappeared eventually.
there was much to seethe duck families didn’t seem to mind the fogthe Castle Hill Innthe castle Hill Lighthouse, it looked much nicer when we arrived
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