LI Cnav2007_Day 2

LI Cnav2007_Day 2
Originally uploaded by Spigquax

We have breakfast at at dinner near the inn, and bought grocery (beefs for BBQ, potatoes and vegetable for salad) to carry to our destination for Day 2.

We launched at the same parking lot that we landed at the end of Day 1, behind Paddy McGee. Everyone was in good spirite. The sky is overcast when we laugh at 11AM. We were in no rush to launch earlier since tide would not be critical for this part of the paddle.

It was a leisurely paddle. There were little wind and the current is not fighting us. The only diffulties is keeping clear of the motor boats since the area we paddle are very narrow at time. On one occation we end up paddling in the middle of the channel without noticing it because the red market indicating where the motor boat channel it end up on shores so we have no safe right hand side of the channel anymore. And there were two busy inlets leading to the Atlantic Ocean that we have to cross. Jone Bay Inlet was busy, but at least we have good visibility when we cross it.

We paddled in a light drizzles as the afternoon progress. Stopping at the only sandy beach we can find for lunch - it stop raining when we take lunch. I putted on a wind breaker when I landed for lunch because I was wet and feeling chilly.

Fog was setting in when we finally approach our second inlet, Fire Island Inlet. We have about a half mile visibility by the time we approach the bridge before the inlet. I was so glad that my have my GPS with me, and I finally personalize it so that I can use it for sea navigation. We have a couple of closed encounter with motor boats coming out of the fog as we crossed but all of them a good distance aways so we were never in danger of being run over. We manage to get our bearing just right to place us right before our destination for the day. We were greeted by a lighhouse on the shores as we make our way out of the fog and sight land after 2 hours of paddle without seeing land. We paddle about 2 miles after crossing over to our rented apartments on Fire Island. It was dark when we landed in a small beach on the side of the apartment complex.