Port of Galilee - July 17, 2023

Snug Harbor Light

With pea soup fog I didn’t get many pictures this morning, so I put my boat in the water this afternoon and padded down to Galilee. I headed south into a moderate headwind down the west side of Great Island past Thomas Point, Little Comfort, Snug Harbor and into the Port of Galilee. It was easy in my sea kayak.

The Port of Galilee was created in 1935 when a harbor was dredged and a dock constructed at the mouth of Point Judith Pond. Connected to the ocean by the Breakaway and the Harbor of Refuge, both completed in 1910, Galilee eventually became the home port for much of Rhode Island's fishing industry. I paddled down to the mouth of the Breachway on the Jerusalem side, and back up past the fishing trawlers, lobster boats and charter boats on the Galilee side before returning to the cottage up the east side of Great Island. 

At the mouth of the Breachway

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