Harbour cottages available to let from the Harbour House Hotel Harrison Ford holidayed here earlier in the year. A number of people in the public eye regularly visit Nantucket because they can live near-normal lives while they are here. People will smile and say 'Hello' but not pester them for photographs and autographs.
Harbour cottages and the wharf for the passenger ferry.
Main Street - the cobbles are far larger and more uneven than they appear here
and act as an excellent speed deterent. The first sign drivers see when leaving the vehicle ferry is 'Slow down
you're not off-island now'. More cobbled roads are being re-discovered all the time
under layers of tarmac
and are being restored. So many of the island roads are narrow and bordered by hedges that it gives rise to a styling feature known as 'Nantucket Pinstripes' - a myriad of fine scratches running the length of the vehicle.
Brant Point light
just about my favourite image of Nantucket.
Nantucket harbour and town from the church tower. Like the church
many of the bigger houses have observation platforms or rooms on the roof. Here the wives of sea-captains would look out every day to see if their husband's ship was returning. Ships could be at sea for months
even years
and many never returned at all. For good reason
they are called 'widow's walks'.
