Windwalker Real Estate is proud to announce that Lee Gaw’s citizen request at last evening’s selectman’s meeting resulted in parking restrictions being lifted for the winter in the downtown core district, with the exception of Main Street and 30 minute parking spaces.

Construction of the Dreamland Theatre and the associated loss of parking spaces in the core district gave Lee the extra impetus to speak out in support of giving all the local people a break for the winter.

When you see Lee around town, be sure to say thank you for being our citizen’s champion!

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While this week’s Nor’easter may be posing a few travel challenges for Nantucketers, the snowy weather is certainly creating some unique holiday scenes.  This nautical image, snapped near the Monomoy Creeks this morning, beautifully showcases the island’s holiday spirit.  While in the harbor, the Killen dory is struggling to stay afloat against astronomically high tides and strong winds.  The Christmas tree, and its ornaments in the dory are all but submerged in the frigid  harbor waters.

While it may not turn out be a white Nantucket Christmas this year, today’s light dusting of snow surely helps one get in the holiday mood and serves up some great island imagery!

The Killen Dory

Photographs of Nantucket are dominated by summer beaches, blooming hydrangeas, climbing roses on Sconset cottages and sailboats cruising Nantucket Harbor. However, Nantucket is no less beautiful in the winter months. When the ponds freeze over and the island gets a dusting of snow, the Nantucket landscape reveals a whole new face filled with new colors and textures.

Here are few photographs taken by Justine Paradis that display Nantucket’s winter scenes.

To find your ideal Nantucket winter rental, use our Rental Search Tool or Contact Windwalker to speak with one of our agents about the various regions of Nantucket and what each area has to offer!

Ducks swimming in front of Windwalker R E

Rising waters in front of Windwalker Real Estate

The 2010 New Year rang in with a challenging, slow moving Nor’easter combined with an astronomically high tide that impacted Nantucket Town along the waterfront.  The Easy Street basin in front of Windwalker Real Estate on Oak Street never actually came over the bank but the high tide came up through the storm drains and flooded parts of Brant Point, the Dreamland lot, Easy Street, Oak Street, and Broad Street along the “Strip”. These were the highest flood waters we have seen in a long time. The noon tides were dramatic but fortunately the wind came around to the west during the evening and averted even higher flood waters forecasted for the midnight tide. For more pictures visit http://gallery.pictopia.com/inqmirror/gallery/98634/

Maybe a Mid-Island rental would be best this time of year!  Use our Rental Search Tool with an integrated map to search for a Nantucket rental in some of the dryer areas!

Happy New Year from Windwalker Real Estate.  We have attached a video “postcard” of winter on our beautiful island. This video was created by island photographer Dan Driscoll.  Enjoy!

A Winter Postcard from Nantucket from Dan Driscoll on Vimeo.

To find your ideal winter wonderland Nantucket Island Rental, use our Rental Search Tool.

Nantucket Cottage

New England weather can be unpredictable and sometimes treacherous to say the least. And when you live on a small island 30 miles out to sea, you learn to keep a sharp eye on the weather reports.

There is always a loud buzz around town a few days before a storm is scheduled to hit Nantucket Island. Who needs to leave? Who needs to get here? Do I send my car off? Is the Steamship Authority canceling boats? Everyone rearranges their ferry reservations and rental cars. They call Nantucket Airport, the Steamship Authority and Hyline Cruises every few minutes to see if the boats and planes are running.

Finally with new reservations, back-up plans and exit strategies in place, everyone waits to see what happens. Sometimes it comes and sometimes it doesn’t.

Saturday night, hours after the storm was scheduled to hit, I was having dinner with a couple friends at Pi Pizzeria. When I pulled up to the restaurant, it was windy, but no snow. We sat and chatted for a while and when we were ready to order, I looked out the window and there was still no snow. Our pizzas arrived, and still no snow. Finally, as we paid our tab, I looked again and saw thousands of snow flakes whizzing sideways by the window, as if were traveling through space.

It snowed and snowed and snowed and I had the privilege of waking up Sunday morning to this lovely scene in my yard.  To find your picturesque Nantucket winter rental, use our Rental Search Tool!