Today we bought all-day bus passes and took the VTA bus from Vineyard Haven to Oak Bluffs. Dogs are allowed on the busses so no problem bringing Bruce.

Oak Bluffs is the neatest little town. A perfect beach town with a big park with a bandstand across the street from a nice beach. Funky little shops and restaurants on Main and Circuit Streets. But the highlights are the Victorian gingerbread cottages that really make up the town. Tiny winding streets and alleys. Multicolored houses stuck close together. Dating from 1850s on. We roamed all thru the neighborhoods - tiny hidden parks, circles within circles, all centered on the Tabernacle Camp pavilion. The town started as a religious retreat center.

We tried to get pizza for lunch at Oak Bluffs but the main pizza place didn't open until 4. So we got on the bus to Edgartown.

The bus went on the road along South Beach. Jaws was filmed here on the beach, on a bridge, and in Edgartown itself.

Edgartown is beautiful. We got pizza (pepperoni slices), then went to the Memorial Dock area where we talked to an older gentleman who lived in a waterfront house in town that he inherited from his grandmother. His great-grandfather was Commodore Peary of Arctic fame.

We walked out along Water Street, where the old whaling captains houses are, to the Edgartown Lighthouse and back. Then back thru the historical district and up Main Street to catch the bus back to Vineyard Haven.

We go to Nantucket tomorrow and try to find a good sheltered spot to ride out Hurricane Elsa which is supposed to come on Friday.