Not really. You can still take the ferry to town hop for a day. But you will start and stop in other towns. The ferry runs much less frequently than the trains, so we found ourselves on the trains mainly and one day on the ferry to see it all from the water.

You will get friendly with the bus schedule that takes you up to town I think. As Tom mentioned, the stairs up to town from the train station are no joke.

On the upside, it might keep some of the larger your groups out. They all seemed to be on the ferry.

Ellen