We spent the last week of the summer in Martha’s Vineyard. We stopped for lunch at the Landfall restaurant in Woods Hole and then caught the ferry over to Vineyard Haven.
This year we stayed at a nice VRBO in Katama, near Edgartown. It had a fully stocked basement with a ping pong table, Wii, board games and puzzles. It must have been kind of rainy early in our trip because I have this pic of a completed puzzle!
I think the first day we went to South Beach, but I must not have taken any pics. The second day we went to State Beach. You can tell from the pics it was a little chilly.
Then we went into Oak Bluffs for ice cream (Big Dipper) and a ride on the carousel. I almost had the brass ring but it slipped through my fingers!
On Tuesday there must have been rain in the forecast and Andrew planned ahead and booked a lane at the bowling alley in Oak Bluffs. Nicest bowling alley ever!
Then we went into Vineyard Haven for lunch at the Black Dog. After that we stopped at the Martha’s Vineyard Museum, which I recall had a nice exhibit on the deaf population in MV. And that night we had dinner at Lucky Hank’s followed by ice cream at Mad Martha’s. A full, rainy day.
On Weds 8/30 we had a visit from these turkeys — someone must be feeding them! Coincidentally, I had achieved my first ever turkey in bowling the previous day (three strikes in a row).
Then we went to the beach at Menemsha which is the fishing village where all the dock scenes were filmed in Jaws. We ran into a family that we know from Larchmont. And had a yummy lobster roll on the beach from Larsen’s!
Speaking of Jaws, like all well equipped MV rental houses, this one had a DVD of Jaws along with the board game! After reading the full plot summary in the complicated board game instructions Blaine decided he was ready to watch the movie, and now declares it to be one of his favorites. 🙂
On Thursday we went to another new-to-us beach at the Longpoint Wildlife Refuge. It was very windy so we had to sit up against the dunes for some cover. But very beautiful!
That night we went into Edgartown to check out the lighthouse and then we had dinner at 19 Prime Steak and Oyster.
On our last day we went back to our fave, South Beach!
Then on Saturday we grabbed a lobster roll to go from the Net Result in Vineyard Haven and then caught our ferry back to Woods Hole.
It was a beautiful week!