To anyone who has fantasised about their own private island getaway – and who hasn’t, judging by the way such idylls capture worldwide attention – the ad for Duck Ledges, when it appeared in June 2022, was a clarion call.
A licensed massage therapist from New Jersey, Gale had a rough couple of years. Her business vanished overnight with the pandemic and the lockdowns. She had to sell her house, she said, with its Victorian garden she had grown and tended for more than a decade.
Christine Crowley, Gale’s real estate agent, remembers her on the dock that day, waiting for Milliken to take her out to the island in his boat. The next owner was a high school science teacher from Massachusetts named Gordon Estabrooks, who spent many summers on the island observing nature. In 2006, Estabrooks put the island up for sale, asking Milliken, a local real estate agent and part-time fisherman, to handle the deal.
“I spent more time out there when he bought it than when I had it,” Milliken said. “I’d take people out several times a year, for free, and share it with them. I’ve had my family out there several times with lobster bakes.” Charlotte Gale tending to her plants on Duck Ledges Island. Photograph: Greta Rybus/The New York Times
Ideally, you visit in June, July or August on a sunny, “flat-ass calm day,” as the locals call it, and preferably in a flat-bottomed boat that can land right up on one of the ledges. Laura Fish said local reaction to Gale had been one of surprise. “A single woman bought the island? That little island? And she’s going to stay out there?” she said, paraphrasing the chatter.
With its simple décor and windows on all sides looking out on the water, the interior has the coziness of a ship’s cabin. Photograph: Greta Rybus/The New York Times “Don’t let it fool you that you see civilisation to the west and east,” Milliken had said. “Look to the south to that wild openness that’s going to be upon you.”
She has decorated with a couch, a table, a vintage-style metal cooler and framed art; and the interior, with its simple decor and windows on all sides looking out on the water, has the cosiness of a ship’s cabin. There is a loft for sleeping. There is a composting toilet behind the cabin .
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