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Day Trip to both Star and Appledore Islands. Ticket includes boat ride, narration and tour of each island.

In 1614, when the venerable Captain John Smith dropped anchor among the Isles of Shoals, he was so captivated by them that he named them “Smith’s Isles” for himself. “Of all four parts of the world that I have seen not inhabited,” he wrote, “could I have but the means to transport a Colony, I would rather live here than anywhere.”

Lying just six miles southeast of the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, five of the nine islands are in Maine (Duck, Appledore, Smuttynose, Malaga, and Cedar) and four are in New Hampshire, Town of Rye (Star, Lunging, White, and Seaveys). The islands are spectacularly scenic, and their long history is crammed with many tales.

Join us to tour the islands with Isles of Shoals Historian Ann Beattie. We will leave and return to Rye Harbor on the Shining Star.