fire island

we recently spent a day out on Fire Island for our friends' Peter & Carla (married) joint birthday party. They are a week apart or so, and have a recent tradition of spending a day on the beach to celebrate them both. this was the first year we were able to go

we drove for maybe an hour & 1/2 to the ferry. since we were late getting out of the house in the morning, as we pulled into the marina area we could see the 10am ferry pulling away into the channel. But we were happy to kill an hour because the beach community there on a saturday was full of yard sales and we wondered thru 2 of them with the girls, who loved browsing and buying trinkets. it was good.

the island is long an narrow. the ferry drops you on the inner beach, and most walk across to the ocean side.

there is an extensive network of these elevated boardwalks that meander thru a scrub forest in this area of the island. we got off the boat and actually took a wrong turn and wound up wandering this swampy, beautiful trail thru the middle of the island. here we have just emerged and are realizing that we've made a mistake. hennie is taking the picture.

everybody is a little distressed

mia, ella, sammy, hennie, and zevvie