New England - Day 11 - The Cliff Walk

We headed out after breakfast to do the Cliff Walk which is a famous walk around the ocean side mansions here in Newport.  It was a mile long walk down to the start of the trail, a 3.5 mile walk on the trail itself, and then 2.5 miles back to our B&B.  Tiring, but absolutely worth every moment along the way.

On the way down to the trail we passed by the library which is just down from our B&B room and I had to take a pic of the roots of this tree growing around and through the fence.

 Then it was on down to the Cliff Walk which lived up to everything we'd ever read about it.

This is the backside of the Breakers which is the Vanderbilt place we visited while on tour from the ship last week.

This house is actually for sale right now for a mere $16.9M.  I'm trying to get Tina to go back to work and see if we can save up for it sometime soon.

Don't ask me why anybody would surf up here ... with the cold water and rocks everywhere, but they do.

So the pics and movie here were on a part of the trail destroyed by Sandy when it came through here 2 years ago.  I probably shouldn't give Tina a hard time about getting across it ... but I will anyway.  :)

It's hard to capture the beauty of the ocean waves breaking up against the rocks, but I figured a movie clip was the best chance.

And then we were to the end of the trail and onto the walk back to the middle of town. That trek was down the main "rich" house street of Newport.

I think I could settle for this nice little summer cottage.

After a late lunch and nap we went back to downtown and visited the International Tennis Hall of Fame.  With Tina having played tennis for the last 3 years she was psyched about visiting this place.

This was the original site of the US Open back from the late 1800's until the early 1900's.  It now has over 20 grass courts and still hosts a major tournament each year.

Until tomorrow, have a devil of a fun time!