You arrive to Point Judith with your large beach bag filled with a bathing suit, sunscreen, a change of clothes, a sandwich or two, a few bottles of water and you’re ready to go. You parade up to the stand where you have to make a decision: traditional or hi-speed? With traditional it’s only twenty two dollars for a round trip, while hi-speed is thirty five dollars. You have to make a decision fast because the next ferry leaves in five minutes and you don’t want to miss it because then you’ll lose an hour of island time. You decide to take the traditional ferry because it’s cheaper and you’re worried you’ll get seasick going at higher speeds. So you pay for your ticket, grab your bag (and maybe a bike if you’re smart) and rush to the ferry.
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You’ve rented a pedal bike and you’re ready to go, map in one hand and the other on the handle. What they didn’t tell you is that the entire island is hills, and though a small distance, it isn’t an easy ride. Approximately one hundred hills later you’ve reached the little dirt parking lot that leads to the dreaded stairs. You leave your bright red bike (that luckily came with a bike lock) and lock it to the bike stand. You follow the group of people to stairs. It looks like you’re on top of the world. From up there you can see all the little people relaxing by the water with their friends and family. The clay cliffs seem to go on in both directions as far as the eye can see and the bright blue water is crashing on the rocky shore as you take it all in. After taking a few photos, you begin your trek down the one hundred and forty stairs that awaits you. Just when you think you’re done, there’s a final area rocky hill where you can either grab onto a rope and walk down, or get down on your bottom and effortlessly tumble your way down. Once you’re at the bottom, it’s like you’re looking at a whole new scene. There’s people laying out tanning, children playing in the water, boys tossing a football back and forth, and couples holding hands peacefully walking along the water. All along the beach you’ll find stacks of rocks, called cairns, that are carefully piled on top of one another, making an inexplicable work of art. If you continue your tread across the hot sand, you might notice that there are children playing with clay, some might even be covered in it. That’s because these cliffs are actually made of loose, eroding clay. In the past, people have tried to climb these cliffs which has been fatal in some cases, due to the looseness of the clay and very rocky areas. Even though there’s a lot to take in, there’s obviously a lot that you want to explore in your short time on the island. Before you head back
You’ve rented a pedal bike and you’re ready to go, map in one hand and the other on the handle. What they didn’t tell you is that the entire island is hills, and though a small distance, it isn’t an easy ride. Approximately one hundred hills later you’ve reached the little dirt parking lot that leads to the dreaded stairs. You leave your bright red bike (that luckily came with a bike lock) and lock it to the bike stand. You follow the group of people to stairs. It looks like you’re on top of the world. From up there you can see all the little people relaxing by the water with their friends and family. The clay cliffs seem to go on in both directions as far as the eye can see and the bright blue water is crashing on the rocky shore as you take it all in. After taking a few photos, you begin your trek down the one hundred and forty stairs that awaits you. Just when you think you’re done, there’s a final area rocky hill where you can either grab onto a rope and walk down, or get down on your bottom and effortlessly tumble your way down. Once you’re at the bottom, it’s like you’re looking at a whole new scene. There’s people laying out tanning, children playing in the water, boys tossing a football back and forth, and couples holding hands peacefully walking along the water. All along the beach you’ll find stacks of rocks, called cairns, that are carefully piled on top of one another, making an inexplicable work of art. If you continue your tread across the hot sand, you might notice that there are children playing with clay, some might even be covered in it. That’s because these cliffs are actually made of loose, eroding clay. In the past, people have tried to climb these cliffs which has been fatal in some cases, due to the looseness of the clay and very rocky areas. Even though there’s a lot to take in, there’s obviously a lot that you want to explore in your short time on the island. Before you head back