With the summer doldrums hitting harder this year with higher air and water temps, I know I’m not the only one excited for some September fishing. The migration of striped bass will be starting by month’s end, a more reasonable (6 fish) black sea bass…
Long Island Boating World
For many reasons, September is my second-favorite month of the year, only falling behind October for the top spot. This is when the air begins to finally begin cooling down, most tourists leave my quaint little shoreline town, and best of all, every type of…
September officially marks the end of tourist summer, and while we are thankful for the visitors business, we now enter local’s summer where fishermen gain our beaches back from the multicolored umbrellas, closed off areas and restricted beach buggy access. Summer water temps sure took…
It’s been a quiet summer, so far, and we haven’t traveled very much. That’s mostly due to the price of fuel and COVID avoidance. The Blonde, my wife has had her job as an Architectural trouble shooter cut back to three days a week but…
There are many types of roses cultured by the most incredible botanists and horticulturists since the first garden varieties were cultured in China almost 5,000 years ago. From there it spread overland and sea routes to the Middle East. As Rome grew, so did the…
Return of the Pirate RoundThe Pirate Round was a sailing route followed by many, mainly English, pirates, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. And, spanning the years 1719 to 1721, Edward England, John Taylor, Olivier Levasseur, and Christopher Condent plied the seas out…
They are not very pretty, they have nothing to do with horses and in fact, they are not even crabs, but rather they are relatives of the scorpions, spiders and mites that first evolved some 480 million years ago. During the time known as the…
Standing mid-Long Island Sound, about five miles from coastal Connecticut and New York, Stratford Shoal Light has warned sailors of the dangerous shallows extending out north and south of the beacon for nearly one and a half centuries.Sailing the Sound in 1614, Dutch explorer Adrian…
The USS Enterprise was the third to be called Enterprise. She was a schooner, built by Henry Spencer in Baltimore, Maryland in 1799.The ship was overhauled and rebuilt several times. It was changed from a twelve-gun schooner to a fourteen-gun, and eventually to a brig.…
Long Island is the largest island in the contiguous 48 states. The South Shore beach coast extends east and nearly straight for 118 miles starting from New York Harbor and ending at Montauk Point. The north shore coast is shorter in east-west distance but has…