Block Island

September 2015, we entered the Great Salt Pond. The Pond provides room for anchorage, or mooring with 360 degree protection, for several hundred boats. 

The history of Block Island dates back to 1524. The original harbor was developed on the eastern side of the Island. An entrance was not dredged into the Great Salt Pond until 1899.  The Islands downtown remains today on the East side of the Island next to the original harbor, about a mile hike from docks at the south east edge of the Pond. Most of the Island's buildings are covered with grayed shingles like the buildings on Nantucket and Cuttyhunk.

                                          The Narragansett Inn on the shore of The Great Salt Pond

                                          Rich, Sandy and Jackie join Greg on the flybridge

                                          One of the many ponds on Block Island

                                          Downtown

                                          One of the churches on Block Island

                                         Typical Block Island house

                                          Houses on shore of Great Salt Pond

                             Coast Guard Station at entrance to the Pond