Yet another beautiful day on Nantucket! We started the day by walking to the grocery and liquor stores. Nantucket is so pretty, here are a couple of pictures from our walk.
Interestingly, after shopping, we had trouble getting an uber, lyft, or taxi back to the boat. Just as we had given up hope and were planning to push the cart back to the boat, an uber became available.
Once everything was stowed back at the boat we returned to town and went to the aquarium. It’s a very small building and actually looks like a joke but Deb was on the board for many years and her son worked there so she encouraged us to go. It houses local species that it collects for the season and then releases back into the ocean at the end of the season. We were toured around by Jack, the director of the aquarium and a very enthusiastic marine biologist. It was excellent and we highly recommend it to other Nantucket visitors. Here’s a picture of the aquarium and Jack.
After our aquarium tour we returned to the boat for lunch. Rick wasn’t feeling that well so I went into town by myself and went to the Hadwen House and the old Quaker Meeting House. At the Hadwen House I learned more Nantucket history. Hadwen made his fortune in candles made from spermaceti (from the sperm whales) which are smokeless, giving them a big advantage. He built a large house for him and his wife and then built another one for his niece. The “Three Bricks” are brick houses across the street which were built by Hadwen’s father in law, Joseph Starbuck, for his three sons. Here are pictures of the Hadwen House and the Three Bricks.
The old Quaker Meeting House was pretty much what you’d expect, a completely plain room with some benches. Here’s a picture of the outside.
I walked back and returned to the boat. We had a lazy evening, watching a huge mega yacht dock. I looked it up it’s for sale, only $40M . . . .
