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you can choose to walk around the island, which takes
about an hour. The hotel has tennis courts, an occa-
sional morning Yoga class run by one of the residents,
and an old-fashioned duckpin bowling alley where
you set up the pins yourself; back when the Army was
here, the enlisted men reset the pins for the officers.
Most people come to Diamond Cove Island to get
away from it all or walk along the paths to the many
beaches, each with very different views, and with
names like Indian Cove Beach and Garden Overlook
and Sunset Point, all nice places to look out at the
water. Along the trails we saw the ruins of many con-
crete bunkers and went by a 100-year-old abandoned
hospital which like the bunkers, was off limits. A few
years ago two teenaged girls broke in and found cloth-
ing and supplies which are presently housed in a tiny
museum on the island; unfortunately, the museum
Three pieces of the actual Berlin is also run by residence owners and when we were
Wall on the waterfront in Portland, there, it was closed because the owner-volunteers
Maine. Bottom: view of the dock weren’t on the island.
from Di Millo’s outdoor dining ter- Basically, you don’t do much, a perfect way to
race. destress. But you do eat! The first evening, we dined
at the Inn on lobster ceviche appetizer followed by
lobster bruschetta. The next night, our last night, we
went to Diamond’s Edge, the island’s only other restau-
rant, for steamed lobster. At the end of the meal, I was
finally lobstered out!
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