Empire State from the New Jersey Turnpike
Phil and the Fair Harbor Fire Engine, Fire Island, New York State, US - 30th April 2006
At the end of the first day in New Jersey, and still Nosher's first day on the east coast after a couple of months in California, we pack up the car and head over to Lolly's beach house on the idyllic Fire Island - a sandbar 32 miles long and about half a mile across, just off Long Island in New York State. The weather is amazing, the sea freezing and the island quiet and gorgeous - there's almost no traffic, and the only practical way to get over is by ferry, although one tip can be reached by causeway. Phil also happens to be in the volunteer Fire Island Fire Service, so we get to poke around at the fire station too.
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Near the junction of I-95 and I-80
Box houses near the interstate
The George Washington bridge
Somewhere in Queens
A bridge over the East River
Queueing for tea at Nicky's Clam Bar
On the Fire island ferry
Kai is somewhere under a heap of coats
Kai peers out from his coat coccoon
Phil gets his fire-department-issue bike out
Down at the Fair Harbor fire station
A heap of shells on a table
Phil's weather station and a shingled wall
Lolly has some breakfast
Phil on the 'Fire Department Rapid-Response Bike'
Down at Fair Harbour
An old fire engine
The fire crew have been supplied with new jackets
Firemen's jackets
Phil stands next to a fire truck
Phil on the back of a fire engine
The biggest, shiniest truck in the building
Phil in the staff canteen
Phil does an introduction to basic hose use
Phil in his gear
A door of pictures, including Richard Nixon
The Fair Harbour real estate agent
The Pioneer General Store
Fishing boats on the pier
Phil on the pier
Fair Harbor
We grab the bikes to cycle back to the beach house
Fair Harbour's doctors' surgery
Back on the boardwalks
Lolly's cool beach house
On the sea front
The only way to drive along the island
Phil fires up the barbeque
Wide open spaces
Intrepid ladies on the beach in deck-chairs
One of the 'streets' on the island
A Fire Island fire hydrant
There's a weird yellow statue in the grass
A dead branch
Phil checks the steaks
Eating lunch outside the house
We all head off on bikes
Lolly, Phil and Kai on the main street
Fire Island's lighthouse
We park the bikes and check the information board
Climbing up the steps to the lighthouse
A view from the lighthouse looking south
A boardwalk snakes away across the dunes
Looking north towards Fair Harbor
Looking down on the rooftops below
The lighthouse lantern
An old telephone
Phil looks up from down below
On the spiral staircase in the lighthouse
A cast-iron spiral staircase
Phil exits the lighthouse
We sit on the steps and eat a snack
On the beach
Suffolk police drive by
Kai on the Fire Department bike
Fire Island National Seashore
The quaintly-named Kismet fire department
We pause, as it's hard going on the sand
Phil saddles up again
Phil and Kai do the baseball thing
More baseball pitching action
Footprints in the sand
Back at Fair Harbor Fire
Half the town turns out for the last ferry back
Back at Ocean Beach ferry terminal
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Empire State from the New Jersey Turnpike
Empire State from the New Jersey Turnpike
Near the junction of I-95 and I-80
Box houses near the interstate
The George Washington bridge
Somewhere in Queens
A bridge over the East River
Queueing for tea at Nicky's Clam Bar
On the Fire island ferry
Kai is somewhere under a heap of coats
Kai peers out from his coat coccoon
Phil gets his fire-department-issue bike out
Down at the Fair Harbor fire station
A heap of shells on a table
Phil's weather station and a shingled wall
Lolly has some breakfast
Phil on the 'Fire Department Rapid-Response Bike'
Down at Fair Harbour
An old fire engine
The fire crew have been supplied with new jackets
Firemen's jackets
Phil stands next to a fire truck
Phil on the back of a fire engine
The biggest, shiniest truck in the building
Phil in the staff canteen
Phil does an introduction to basic hose use
Phil in his gear
A door of pictures, including Richard Nixon
The Fair Harbour real estate agent
The Pioneer General Store
Fishing boats on the pier
Phil on the pier
Fair Harbor
We grab the bikes to cycle back to the beach house
Fair Harbour's doctors' surgery
Back on the boardwalks
Lolly's cool beach house
On the sea front
The only way to drive along the island
Phil fires up the barbeque
Wide open spaces
Intrepid ladies on the beach in deck-chairs
One of the 'streets' on the island
A Fire Island fire hydrant
There's a weird yellow statue in the grass
A dead branch
Phil checks the steaks
Eating lunch outside the house
We all head off on bikes
Lolly, Phil and Kai on the main street
Fire Island's lighthouse
We park the bikes and check the information board
Climbing up the steps to the lighthouse
A view from the lighthouse looking south
A boardwalk snakes away across the dunes
Looking north towards Fair Harbor
Looking down on the rooftops below
The lighthouse lantern
An old telephone
Phil looks up from down below
On the spiral staircase in the lighthouse
A cast-iron spiral staircase
Phil exits the lighthouse
We sit on the steps and eat a snack
On the beach
Suffolk police drive by
Kai on the Fire Department bike
Fire Island National Seashore
The quaintly-named Kismet fire department
We pause, as it's hard going on the sand
Phil saddles up again
Phil and Kai do the baseball thing
More baseball pitching action
Footprints in the sand
Back at Fair Harbor Fire
Half the town turns out for the last ferry back
Back at Ocean Beach ferry terminal