Montauk and MON TIKI, Winter 2012/13
Today’s storm is from the East, not the Northeast. The grass is starting to green up. Winter’s on its way out. Spring is coming. You can feel it.
Light Pours Down Between the Cloud After a Storm, Ditch Plains, Montauk NY
Light Pours Down Between the Cloud After a Storm, Ditch Plains, Montauk NY
OPEN, part 4: Pearls for Valentine’s Day
The Montauk Shellfish Company grows something very special out here: Montauk Pearls! A Montauk Pearl is an oyster that’s raised to market size in the warm, nutrient rich waters of Lake Montauk, and then taken out to Block Island Sound for an “ocean finish”. I love it when people see a smart way to put…
OPEN, Part 3: The Montauk IGA
During the summer I simply won’t go into the IGA in the late afternoon. Everyone’s come off the beach, realized they need stuff for dinner, and BOOM! Enough people for three suburban supermarkets packed into our little five isle IGA. It’s no one’s fault. Hungry people gotta eat. Even still, it’s A LOT of people…
OPEN, part 2: The Montauket
There’s no place in Montauk that’s more relaxed, or more relaxing than mid-Summer at sundown at the Montauket. Except maybe a winter sundown. Quiet, cozy, beautiful.
OPEN, part 1
There is nothing sweeter than summer in Montauk, and Montauk is rightly renowned as a summer resort community. But the backbone of Summer Montauk is year-round Montauk. We have a fishing fleet that works through the winter; a pre-K through eighth grade school that educates about 250 students. A handful of hotels stay open through…
Main Street, Dusk, February 12, 2013, Montauk NY
Main Street, Dusk, February 12, 2013, Montauk NY
Playing in Eddie Ecker Park on Fort Pond Bay the day after a blizzard in Montauk, NY
The wind came hard out of the East, and the snow was wet and icy. Every tree, every pole, every fence, every house had an hard crust on the east-facing side, Montauk NY Wife, daughters, and dog racing from the parking lot to the sledding hill, Eddie Ecker Park on Fort Pond Bay, Montauk NY…
Montauk’s Surf Lodge and Navy Beach Restaurant on a snowy February day.
White snow covers white sand in the Surf Lodge parking lot, Montauk NY The Surf Lodge stands watch as geese congregate on Fort Pond’s sunken island, Montauk NY The season still months away, Navy Beach Restaurant sleeps at the edge of Fort Pond Bay, Montauk NY, Fort Pond Bay, bounded by Culloden Point to the…
Daybreak, Essex St. Beach, Montauk NY
The Surf Club Condos silhouetted at dawn, Essex St. Beach, Montauk NY (click to enlarge)