Isobel has a beer on a boat
A Return to Fire Island, Long Island, New York State, US - 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.
next album: A Trip to The Barbican, Plymouth, Devon - 6th April 2007
previous album: Liberty Island, A Helicopter Trip and Madison Square Basketball, New York, US - 27th March 2007
Phil and Isobel chat
Kicking back
Kai and Isobel play piano
Phil's boat in the drive
Phil tows his boat up the road a bit
The Bronx Whitestone Bridge
Powell's Cove, and a distance view of Manhattan
A solar halo is spotted
There really is a Hicksville
A trucker's dog peers forlornly out of a small footwell window
The Bay Shore Marina
On the Fire Island Ferry, we scoff hot fried clams and shrimp
Phil sets up a massive chess game
Isobel plays as Nosher's queen, whilst Kai stands in as Phil's rook
Chess on the sand
Atlantic seafront
Isobel on the empty beach
Blue sky, white sands
A stack of discarded fencing lies on the beach
A Fire Island fire hydrant is observed by a strange yellow statue
The chess pieces are scattered
Lolly's beach house
Sunset over the old pier
Close up on the pier
The end of the jetty states somewhat obviously: 'boats'
The Fire Island lighthous light reflects on the water
Phil and Isobel mill around on the pier
Phil and Isobel on a pier covered by sea-shells broken open by seagulls
Phil takes us for a quick tour of the fire station
The house in the dusk
A fence under the moonlight
Moonlit beach under the orange barf-glow of Manhattan
Orion's belt, and an SUV on the beach
A beach house stands on the edge of the beach
A long exposure as an SUV drives past
The fenced-off path leading to the beach
A plane takes off from JFK
The giant chess set's pieces lie discarded in the moonlight
Isobel in the beach house
Lolly gets something out of the fridge
Isobel looks up inside the lighthouse
From the top of Fire Island's lighthouse, the view over the west of the island
The island police station
The towns of Kismet and Saltaire
The bridge to the west of the island
A couple walk along the boardwalk up to the lighthouse
The remains of an old lighthouse
The lighthouse lantern
The way down
A bench in the lighthouse
Fire Island lighthouse
One of several deer on the island, aparently considered a pest
A Virgin Atlantic A340-600 parked at Heathrow
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Isobel has a beer on a boat
Isobel has a beer on a boat
Phil and Isobel chat
Kicking back
Kai and Isobel play piano
Phil's boat in the drive
Phil tows his boat up the road a bit
The Bronx Whitestone Bridge
Powell's Cove, and a distance view of Manhattan
A solar halo is spotted
There really is a Hicksville
A trucker's dog peers forlornly out of a small footwell window
The Bay Shore Marina
On the Fire Island Ferry, we scoff hot fried clams and shrimp
Phil sets up a massive chess game
Isobel plays as Nosher's queen, whilst Kai stands in as Phil's rook
Chess on the sand
Atlantic seafront
Isobel on the empty beach
Blue sky, white sands
A stack of discarded fencing lies on the beach
A Fire Island fire hydrant is observed by a strange yellow statue
The chess pieces are scattered
Lolly's beach house
Sunset over the old pier
Close up on the pier
The end of the jetty states somewhat obviously: 'boats'
The Fire Island lighthous light reflects on the water
Phil and Isobel mill around on the pier
Phil and Isobel on a pier covered by sea-shells broken open by seagulls
Phil takes us for a quick tour of the fire station
The house in the dusk
A fence under the moonlight
Moonlit beach under the orange barf-glow of Manhattan
Orion's belt, and an SUV on the beach
A beach house stands on the edge of the beach
A long exposure as an SUV drives past
The fenced-off path leading to the beach
A plane takes off from JFK
The giant chess set's pieces lie discarded in the moonlight
Isobel in the beach house
Lolly gets something out of the fridge
Isobel looks up inside the lighthouse
From the top of Fire Island's lighthouse, the view over the west of the island
The island police station
The towns of Kismet and Saltaire
The bridge to the west of the island
A couple walk along the boardwalk up to the lighthouse
The remains of an old lighthouse
The lighthouse lantern
The way down
A bench in the lighthouse
Fire Island lighthouse
One of several deer on the island, aparently considered a pest
A Virgin Atlantic A340-600 parked at Heathrow