The next island was Fisher Island, beautiful bay, with
sandy beaches, but it like going back 50 years. 4 shops, the ice cream shop had
a broken freezer and the Café closed at 2pm, so pretty dead… but I saw a famous
Hollywood movie star, but still cannot remember his name, you would need lots of money to live on
this kind of reclusive island.
Next was our destination Mystic seaport, we set off a
06.00am as we need to time the river right on the flood and in time for the rail
bridge to open then the road bridge which opened on request 40 mins past every
hour. So off we went and for once
everything went to plan, the fog stayed away so we could see clearly the
Meandering river, the coastline was dotted with huge houses all with the US
flags flying proudly and beautiful gardens down to the river. What a wonderful looking
place.
We moored against a wooden pier against wooden piles and
we were given fender boards to keep us clear of the pier. Mary the dockmaster’s helper was
brilliant and helped us dock and filled us in on the amenities. The only thing wrong with the place was
the cost $540 for 2 nights including the museum and the shipyard, gulp!!! Our
budget was blown out of the water again.
