Entering Nantucket Harbor on ferry; 2nd oldest lighthouse in US

Small harbor, giant mooring field in Nantucket Island, MA

From the roof of the Nantucket Whaling Museum

Nantucket Lighthouse on Atlantic Ocean side

Rather rough brown golf course on high bluff over Atlantic

Sperm whale that washed up on beach in 1970's died of natural causes

This fence builder accomodated a tree trunk neoplasm

Multimillion dollar homes on cobblestone streets

Nantucket, MA

September 11 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F

Nantucket is a famous NE vacation and tourism destination. I hope these pictures give a bit of a flavor of the place. More importantly, we’ve decided to explore the NE coast from Maine to NY in Cat O’ Mine, and you can do so too. Whether or not we do so via the Down East Loop (past the Canadian Maritimes) is still open and the decision is reversible before exiting the St Lawrence into the Atlantic.

Tonight the ship returns to Boston through the Cape Cod Canal, which I’d like to see in daylight but oh, well.Read more