After a stormy voyage he arrived in Naples on February 2, where he met again his new friends, Gale and Robinson. Together they visited the more frequented parts of the city, which was then "all alive with the gaieties of the Carnival." His interest in the remains of ancient times was deepened by the visit he made with some other Americans to the museum of antiquities at Herculaneum. Bayley declared the church of the Certosa di San Martino "the most beautiful in Naples," writing in his diary, "those old monks had a good taste in these matters." On February 8, he and his two American friends and a young English clergyman named Clarke climbed Mount Vesuvius. Two days later, Bayley made an excursion to Salerno, and several days later he and Mr. Clarke went on a similar expedition to the "famed shores of Baiae" west of Naples, with Bayley writing in his journal, "Never have I passed a day of more true and unmingled enjoyment."