| For New Englanders a tropical island seems about as | | | | the North East.More than ten thousand years ago the |
| remote as the Pyramids. A summer getaway to the | | | | glaciers left behind a piece of land that today stands |
| beach usually means a trip to the Cape or to Maine | | | | as a refuge from busy city life, or the harsh New |
| where while the rocky shores may look beautiful, the | | | | England weather. As you arrive via a ferry from Point |
| water is somewhat less than welcoming. Few could | | | | Judith, New London, or Montauk you are immediately |
| imagine that just off the shores of Rhode Island near | | | | immersed in a world quite separate from the one you |
| Narragansett Bay lies Block Island the closest thing to | | | | left on the mainland. |
| a Caribbean escape that one could dream of finding in | | | | |