I spent the afternoon perched in an Adirondack chair with a book, and paddling around in one of Chris’s kayaks. It also adds to the romance of pretending that is 1870 and you are the lighthouse keeper’s daughter. (You participate in a pee-tally by moving periwinkles along a wire, and then moving them back after a flush.) Sustainability on Rose Island is more than a conceptual ideal it is practical and necessary. Guests are encouraged to use the outdoor bathrooms as much as possible, and not to flush until they are the third person to pee. There’s bottled drinking water, but otherwise, the lighthouse runs off collected rainwater. Guests are expected to bring their own food and pack out their trash (except compost, which goes into the garden) and to change the sheets at the end of their stay.Īlso, water is a precious resource. No Wi-Fi, for one, though cell service works pretty well. There are more rustic elements of staying on Rose Island that remind you that, well, you’re on an island. The other rooms do have electricity, powered by wind turbines and a generator. There’s a view of the Newport Bridge, a functioning woodstove, and no electricity. Now it houses guests and has the feel of a ship’s cabin - four windows and water in three directions. I stayed in the Foghorn Room, which contained a foghorn once upon a time. The lighthouse has six rooms available, and can actually accommodate up to 14 people. Sophie Haigney for the Boston GlobeĪfter Chris left, my only companions were a young couple from Virginia, and Sam, the resident seagull whose girlfriend is nesting against the lighthouse. Sailboats drifted by Rose Island in the late afternoon and early evening.
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