Welcome to our site where you can learn about our off the grid summer rental located on Tisbury Great Pond in West Tisbury. Our home is a now one of the few remaining examples of a classic Martha’s Vineyard “camp.” Located a mile and a half down a dirt road on Deep Bottom Cove, this is the place you go to get away from it all.
If you are a true nature lover, looking to experience an old-style Martha’s Vineyard vacation, you’ve come to the right place. If sitting on a porch with killer views of the pond, sunsets to die for and kayaking to South Beach with osprey and cormorants as your companions are your thing, you’ll love our home. Alternatively, if your idea of a great Vineyard vacation is exploring the shops and golfing in Edgartown, you’re going to feel out of place surrounded by this much nature.
Longtime renter and columnist for the New York Times wrote the following about the Lewis Camp on Deep Bottom Cove: The Magic of Swimming on Martha’s Vineyard
“…I’ve yet to find a place as magical as Martha’s Vineyard. Out the back door of my rented cabin is a tidal pond — a rare habitat that connects to the ocean and thus changes in depth, salinity, current and resident creatures from one day (and one hour) to the next. It is long, narrow and one of five, like the fingers of a hand, that converge at Tisbury Great Pond, the largest inland body of water on the island. Just beyond is the Atlantic Ocean, South Beach to be precise, all of it part of the 600-acre Long Point Wildlife Refuge, the last remaining unspoiled part of a summer resort where tourists drive the winter population of 16,000 to 105,000. On a typical visit, over the last 15 years, I swim in ‘my’ pond, shared only with a pair of swans, a half dozen times a day.”
