Tag: kayaking

  • A Kayak Day

    In the salty water up to my ankles, I lay it down, the stern resting lightly on the rocky shore until I can get in.

    a green kayak bow points towards a sandy shore
  • Hog Island Shoal Lighthouse

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    Driving over the Mount Hope Bridge from Bristol to Aquidneck Island, I often wondered how I would get close enough to capture an image of the Hog Island Lighthouse.

    a channel lighthouse at sunset, with a small fihing boat to the right of the base of the lighthouse
  • Rose Island Lighthouse

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    Rose Island, Newport Rhode Island, USA On a chilly summer day, I launched a kayak from a rocky shore at Battery Park in Newport, Rhode Island. I had set my sights on getting close to the Rose Island lighthouse. The light is located not far from Newport Harbor, and very close to the iconic Newport…

    A white clapboarded lighthouse overlooks choppy waters under cloudy skies
  • The Sakonnet Point Light

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    In the past, we’d pull on the riding boots and leathers, steering the motorcycles out towards Little Compton. It’s open spaces are sprinkled with farm stands that the local growers sell apples and produce to the families that live out here past the noisy cities of Fall River and Newport. In the fall, it’s squash…

    Sakonnet Point Lighthouse- a white sparkplug lighthouse with clouds and blue sky in the background