Nice day trip!

August 17 -   Today was road trip time!  I wanted to go to Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island to see Point Judith Lighthouse.  It’s our first time in RI this trip and it was also a good time to get some good seafood for lunch.

We had barely gotten on the road when Bill said he wasn’t feeling very well and asked if I’d drive.  I have no problem driving but as I’ve said before, I do not like driving that truck!  I can’t see over the steering wheel without towels in my seat and even then I’m not comfortable with the head rest banging into my clip in my hair.  But, I sucked it up and drove!

First view of the Coast Guard station and lighthouse

We went right out to the point and it was a gorgeous day!  No rain in sight and beautiful sunny skies.  It was quite windy at the point.  The lighthouse sits to the side of the Coast Guard Station which also has a light on top.   The current lighthouse was built in1857 and the light has been automated for several years.  It has a Fresnel lense that lights 5 seconds on and 2 seconds off.

It was an awesome view from the small park adjacent to the station.  The waves of the Atlantic were crashing ashore and

It's a Grand Ole Flag!!!

there was a variety of boats on the water.  Bill sat on a bench for a while and watched what was happening around him while I took photos of the Coast Guard Station and the lighthouse.  We could not have asked for a nicer day!

To get a better angle of the building since it was gated and we could only get so close, we drove out and around to the side facing the old lighthouse.  The coast there had HUGE boulders in place to prevent shore erosion and we could see further along the coastline a nice looking beach area with a man made breaker.

There were guys surfing, but we couldn’t understand why as there were no waves at all.  We joked that they need to try Florida for some “real” waves.

Better View

There is a memorial up a short hill between the parking area and the lighthouse so we walked up and you got a much better view of the lighthouse and the Coast Guard Station.  Over the edge of the hill you could see down to a boat anchor of mass

Hope Anchor

proportion made from huge rocks.  It was  a very nice memorial with benches scattered around it.

Before

After

Time for lunch!  Bill did his homework and found a seafood place that’s been in the same family for 100 years and had great ratings.  It’s Aunt Carrie’s.  They offer pick-up or dine in

and we went with dine in.  We ate in and had plenty of space around us.  I had my first whole lobster on this trip.  It came with delicious sides and thick cinnamon bread!  Bill had a big platters of fried clam strips and fries.  After he was done and watching me slowly but surely breaking down my lobster,

The tail just waiitng...

it dawned on him that it would take me a while to pick every dab of meat from each and every part of it.  I will say I was stuffed when I finished and it was delicious!

I drove us back home and it seemed like we got back faster than the drive over.  When it was time for dinner we agreed we were not overly hungry but had a few things from the fridge and went to our respective sofas to read and watch some TV.