A Return to Fire Island, Long Island, New York - 30th March 2007
For a complete contrast to the frenetic life in Manhattan, Nosher and Isobel head off to see Nosher's old school chum Phil and his family in Maplewood, New Jersey. From there, after a night playing poker, we head over to the beach house on Fire Island for a bit of relaxation in another world. It's also a chance for Phil to take his new eBay purchase - a rather cool motor boat - down to a marina near to the ferry terminal, and for us to get stopped by a real traffic cop (for towing a trailer on an expressway). Fire Island itself is a sandbar island about half a mile wide and 30 miles long and is just off Long Island. It has virtually no traffic, on account of there being no direct vehicular access, but is criss-crossed by the boardwalks that connect all the individual clapperboard houses.
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Phil tows his boat out of the drive |
Crossing the East River - a distant view of Manhattan |
On the way, Nosher spots an Annular Rainbow. |
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A circular annular ("ring") rainbow, New York State |
Yes, there reall is a Hicksville |
A trucker's dog peers forlornly out of a small footwell window |
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The Bay Shore Marina |
On the Fire Island Ferry, we scoff hot fried clams and shrimp |
Phil sets up a giant outdoor game of Chess. Isobel plays as Nosher's queen, whilst Kai stands in as Phil's rook |
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Atlantic seafront |
Isobel on the beach. It's fairly empty, but is used as a quick way of getting round the island by the few SUVs on the island |
Blue sky, white sands |
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A stack of discarded fencing lies on the beach |
A Fire Island fire hydrant is observed by a strange yellow statue |
Black and white pieces in black and white |
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Nosher, Isobel and Phil wander down to the pier to look at the sunset |
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The end of the jetty states somewhat obviously: "boats" |
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In the distance, the Fire Island lighthouse lights up |
Phil and Isobel mill around on the pier |
Final wide-angle view of the setting sun |
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Phil and Isobel on a pier covered by sea-shells broken open by seagulls |
The house in the dusk |
Nosher heads down to the beach in the bright moonlight. The stars of Orion's Belt can be seen top-right |
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A beach house stands on the edge of the beach, brooding in the moonlit dark. The sky is lit by New York's orange barf-glow |
A long exposure makes the beach under moonlight look almost like it's in daylight, but with a strange colour and stars in the sky |
The fenced-off path leading to the beach |
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Back at the house, the giant chess set's pieces lie discarded under the strange light of the moon |
From the top of Fire Island's lighthouse, the view over the west of the island |
A couple walk along the boardwalk up to the lighthouse |
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The twin lights of Fire Island lighthouse |
Honeycombed lattice in the cast-iron spiral staircase of Fire Island lighthouse |
An anchor and the lighthouse |
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One of several deer on the island (aparently considered something of a pest) |
Traditional (for me, anyway) compulsory shot of an aeroplane - a Virgin Atlantic A340-600 parked at Heathrow |
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