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Our
August 2016 trip to
Long Island, NY.
don't miss deer approaching us at 9:40
You may notice we have bicycles, I keep one there and
Roxana uses my Mom's bike. We're visiting my Mom she's still in the same house i grew up in.
Despite the heat, humidity and bugs we spent nearly every minute outside.
Long Island may be a crowded suburb but there is still a fair amount of beautiful nature to hike in
.. time links below will skip you ahead and have more details about the scenes.
After a 6am arrival at
JFK we'll take the AirTrain from JFK to
Jamaica Station, the
Long Island Rail Road to
Penn Station in
Manhattan and then walked to
Times Square. From there we take the
Subway to
Washington Square and walk awhile
...
0:45
Freedom Tower
0:53
NYC High School of Economics and
Finance. My father was teaching here on
9/11. They were evacuating students on the street when the second tower fell. The first tower fell while he was still inside. He had to walk several miles across a bridge to get home. His physics and chemistry background meant he was able to help with testing for contaminants so he was back at the site taking samples helping determine when it was safe for people to return to the area. Dad passed away in
2007 to unrelated issues. Before teaching he was an aeronautical engineer. "If it flies and drops bombs I probably had something to do with it" he said, plus test and design work on the apollo 11
LEM and
F14.
1:05 9/11
Memorial
1:
55 Wall Street
2:15
Brooklyn Bridge
2:39
Statue of Liberty from
Battery Park
we've walked about 3 miles, we'll take a Subway uptown to
59th St.
3:30
Central Park, we'll walk about 2 more miles seeing sights.
It's very hot and humid.
4:15
Empire State Building and the Long Island Rail Road to
Sayville.
4:44
Hot Bagels This is THE Bagel. No
Crumbs.
Soft.
WARM. There are other "as good" bagels but no better. Foods that NY is known for are actually from Long Island.
5:08
Parkville Plaza Deli - a local favorite, Roxana has an
Egg Sandwich or "breakfast special" a Long Island tradition (honestly i'm not into it but people rave about them)
5:25
Brookside County Park.
I'll make another video of this Park. It is a private residence turned Park that is a good example of the area.
5:55 launching my model rocket at the Sayville Jr.
High (now middle school) - bonus, another guy is there flying RC planes. I store the rocket at Mom's, CA is too dry for model rockets but it is safe here.
6:28 looking at
Fire Island before we take a ferry over there.
6:40 reverse view from Fire Island, we'll take a short walk around and see the beach.
Link to longer video below
7:58 Fire Island
Deer are extremely tame
8:37 army chopper, that's an in-air refueling system not a gun
8:47 in the bayside woods and we'll walk to
The Pines for a drink and a boat home. I'm having a
Shirley Temple, Roxana has a
Screwdriver haha.
9:06 Sunken
Forest, part of the
Fire Island National Seashore.
BUGS were so bad we ran through it, couple shots from last year and then we are in the Bioswale behind the dunes
9:38 Bioswale and DEER like you see in very few places... Do Not miss this part!!
10:27 leaving the
Pines, you can see the
Weekend Crowd is gearing up. There's even a
LOGO network camera crew on the left.
10:45 view the
Storms from the boat..
11:02 lightning- summer storms to the north from dusk till 10pm most nights
11:24 to the
Hamptons, first stop
Conscience Point in
Southampton. in 1640 the first
English settlers of
New York arrived here from
Mass.
11:49
Cedar Point County Park in
East Hampton. Mom loves this place, we've camped here my whole life. On
Gardiner's Bay, we are between the two forks of the Long Island's east end.
12:30 tidal pool, we'll take a closer look and see snails and hermit crabs looking for empty snail shells to move into
13:17
LongHouse Reserve Sculpture Garden, East Hampton.
13:50 Sunflowers and summer rain from my front porch in Sayville
14:03
Greenbelt trail and
Connetquot River State Park, a short hike on a hot and humid day.
14:23 a Vanderbilt "clubhouse"
14:32
Suffolk County Fire Rescue practicing
Rescue operations
14:41
LARGE Trout from the nearby fish hatchery. If you like fishing see
Jason Huckeba and RoadTripVidz in my featured channels!
15:10
Swan in
Lotus Lake
15:25 Jamaica Station,You're not allowed to film in the AirTrain or AirTrain
Station but the soldiers said it was ok to get this shot from JFK outside the terminal.
Takeoff shots include an airbus
A380
16:09 Manhattan from the air
16:22 Fog over
Berkeley....
Thanks for joining us see you next time!!
Sunken Forest video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaftwX_jC7w
full length Fire Island tour here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of8Wl0A-AhQ
Sears Bellows Park hike, eastern Long Island video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bThq2wbk7CY
Model Rocket launches at same location video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03Hplc6exI
- published: 21 Aug 2016
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