title	A Return to Fire Island, Long Island, New York State, US - 30th March 2007
intro	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.
imgp3915	Isobel has a beer on a boat
imgp3916	Phil and Isobel chat
imgp3918	Kicking back
imgp3922	Kai and Isobel play piano
imgp3923	Phil's boat in the drive
imgp3927	Phil tows his boat up the road a bit
imgp3928	The Bronx Whitestone Bridge
imgp3933	Powell's Cove, and a distance view of Manhattan
imgp3956	A solar halo is spotted
imgp3967	There really is a Hicksville
imgp3968	A trucker's dog peers forlornly out of a window
imgp3971	The Bay Shore Marina
imgp3972	We scoff hot fried clams and shrimp on the ferry
imgp3975	Phil sets up a massive chess game
imgp3981	Isobel plays as Nosher's queen in a game of chess
imgp3984	Chess on the sand
imgp3986	Atlantic seafront
imgp3988	Isobel on the empty beach
imgp3989	Blue sky, white sands
imgp3994	A stack of discarded fencing lies on the beach
imgp3996	A fire hydrant is observed by a yellow statue
imgp3999	The chess pieces are scattered
imgp4000	Lolly's beach house
imgp4001	Sunset over the old pier
imgp4006	Close up on the pier
imgp4015	The end of the jetty states the obvious
imgp4030	The lighthous light reflects on the water
imgp4037	Phil and Isobel mill around on the pier
imgp4042	The pier is covered by shells broken by seagulls
imgp4047	Phil takes us for a quick tour of the fire station
imgp4050	The house in the dusk
imgp4055	A fence under the moonlight
imgp4058	Moonlit beach under the barf-glow of Manhattan
imgp4060	Orion's belt, and an SUV on the beach
imgp4061	A beach house stands on the edge of the beach
imgp4063	A long exposure as an SUV drives past
imgp4064	The fenced-off path leading to the beach
imgp4066	A plane takes off from JFK
imgp4071	The giant chess set's pieces lie in the moonlight
imgp4073	Isobel in the beach house
imgp4075	Lolly gets something out of the fridge
imgp4076	Isobel looks up inside the lighthouse
imgp4082	The view over the west of the island
imgp4084	The island police station
imgp4085	The towns of Kismet and Saltaire
imgp4087	The bridge to the west of the island
imgp4092	A couple walk along the boardwalk
imgp4093	The remains of an old lighthouse
imgp4095	The lighthouse lantern
imgp4106	The way down
imgp4115	A bench in the lighthouse
imgp4121	Fire Island lighthouse
imgp4128	An island deer, aparently considered a pest
imgp4129	A Virgin Atlantic A340-600 parked at Heathrow