While in Maine, drift off the coastal tourist path to find peaceful and charming accommodations on an unspoiled island. You can enjoy dramatic scenery or relax in quiet contemplation. Island is best explored by bike or on foot, but you can bring a car on the ferry that leaves Rockland 6 times a day. Trip offers beautiful ocean/island scenery and takes a little over an hour. Island community of 1,200 year-round residents, and 4,000 summer residents, includes lobster fishermen, artists, and musicians.

Favorite activities are hiking, bicycling, and swimming in the public spring-fed granite quarries. Town, with good restaurants, museum, and summer cultural events, is centered around Carver's Harbor. There is passenger/bicycle service to the neighboring island of North Haven. Fox Island Inn is filled with island ambience, including sunshine, flowers, hand-made quilts and home baking.