The media liked to say that there were so many pleasure boats there that you
could walk from boat to boat. As you can see, you may not even want to
swim from boat to boat. Notice the waves. The Coast Guard had speed
restrictions for everyone to go slow. It seem that everone did except
for the NY Waterway boats (I was quite unimpressed with their seamanship
on this particular day.) and these big heavy CG boats that were going back
and forth creating large wakes for no reason that I could tell. We had to
hold onto the pots on the stove to keep all the hot food from spilling
everytime they passed.
That's it. I didn't shoot any fireworks. You just had to be there for those.
They came from about 6 or seven directions, all synchronized. The trip
back was fun with the wakes and all the boat traffic. There were quite
a number of calls the the CG for broken props, taking on water, and
being lost. "Whats that bridge up there?" Or, "I'm at green 1, how do
I get to Sandy Hook?" I think that person must have driven straight out
of the Verrazano bridge (southeast) instead of turning to due south and
ended up at the entrance to Sandy Hook Channel instead on inside the Hook.
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