With a weather forecast of a serious low front approaching we left Nantucket early to get to Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard before 2pm. We were on a mooring ball by 1pm. That night we set the anchor watch just in case the mooring ball didn’t hold in the 50 mph winds and downpour of rain all night.
This morning was gloomy but calm so we headed into town. We paid our $30 per night mooring fee and headed to the bus stop where we purchased our $4 round trip ticket to Edgartown. What a classic New England colonial town we stepped into. Boutique shops and art galleries abound. We also saw the Edgartown Lighthouse, originally built in 1828 and then destroyed in the 1938 hurricane.
After doing up the town we returned to Oak Bluffs to take in the sights there. We visited the “Flying Horses” carousel, built in 1876 and is the oldest operating platform carousel in the country. It was closed but I got photos through the windows. There are 22 horses with real horsehair tails.
Oak Bluffs is filled with whimsical, multi-colored gingerbread type cottages erected to replace the early Methodist canvas tents from the 1880’s camp ground. The Tabernacle in Trinity Park was the original site of the preacher’s stand for the Methodist Camp. It now seats over 3,000 and hosts an annual Illumination Night every August where hundreds of Japanese lanterns decorate the eaves of the cottages…what a sight that would be to see.
View from Jay Sea Dee.
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