Showing posts with label Robert Moses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Robert Moses. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2015

Annual Robert Moses Beach Post



What celestial blues!


What a perfect day for the beach.



The water was ripply and delicious.


The life guards were suitably watchful.


The surfers were out


but the children had shallower bits to paddle in too.


Even the changing room was rather picturesque.


Again with more splendid blues, our friends Caitlin and Samuel Dowe-Sandes house in Morocco with their own tiles - and one of Robert's paintings in the dining room. In September's Elle Decor. See below.








Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Beach 2/Robert Moses



Those of you who read this blog pretty often will recall many happy days at Field 3 of Robert Moses State Park. So this post is just one in a series taken through several years.


However, Hurricane Sandy really caused some fairly significant changes. For one thing, the pitch or angle of the beach is altered.


The dunes on the west end of Field 3 look rather battered.


The beach is now somewhat flatter which is lovely.


Instead of the sand being all pure beige or 'sandy', there are now some washes of darker sand which seems lighter - and floats to the surface. How clear the water is!  The posh word is pellucid.


One thing Sandy did was wash away one lot of sand and replace it with another. (Well, the Corps of Engineers helped). People who have those little wands to look for metal treasures are miserable... 


but shell-collecters are thrilled.


How sheeny and shiny the wet shells are - and how dull they get sitting in a jar or on a shelf at home. 


The birds were out in force...


doing bird things like taking off and landing.


The people were there walking


or just hanging about in the waves.


My shadow was there looking like some odd Edwardian traveller.


Lori's beach bag from Morocco was there too.






Saturday, September 10, 2011

Stormy Day at the Beach



I always find going to the beach in September extra sweet.


The children are back at school. The light is changing and you know
 that the number of beach days is growing smaller and smaller.


Yesterday we we greeted by the sight of wild waves. 
"They were much bigger yesterday," the life guard said. 


Such wonderful, crashing, disorganized waves. No chance of swimming. 
Hurricane Katia somewhere miles and miles away. 


I think the lifeguards have fun in their dune buggies.
 I think the lifeguards have fun in general.


Hurricane Irene had cut into the dunes making a little cliff.
Later on the biting flies came out.


A splendid day for being beside the sea


A small person on a large beach!


but no one was allowed in it


except the surfers.