I can't say enough what a great area this is for transiting boaters! (See the previous post on easily accessible places here.) But, with new places to go, and explore, we continued on..
We cruised easterly up Long Island Sound, cutting to the south in Oyster Bay Inlet. There was another Nordic tug our size, only red and white, going into the inlet just far enough in front of us that we couldn't read their name. Instead of turning into Oyster Bay, we continued all the way through to the town of Cold Springs. There was a great Sandy Beach there, and the area was pretty. There was plenty of room to anchor near a mooring field there. It was early enough in the day that we didn't stop, but continued back out the inlet, and up the Sound.
Some of the homes here are like castles! All of them are pretty spectacular.
We have a couple of different apps that let us keep up with some of our friends, and we saw Tugnacious on the iPhone, and set our boat on an intercept course. We hadn't seen Bill and Diane in a couple of months, and it was good to see them again. We talked over the rail for a few minutes before we each continued to different places.
We turned into the Huntington Bay Inlet, and into Newport Bay, anchoring tucked up behind the long sandy beach, an evident favorite of locals. 40 55.302'N 073 24.017W
We launched the dinghy and went ashore, letting the dogs walk the beach, and swim. The beach is sand, and rock, and shell, depending upon where you are. It is definitely a place for shoes! There were places that shells were two feet high on the beach!
By dark, the dozens of boats cleared, leaving us to our solitude anchorage. The wakes also stopped at night, making this a nice place. We watched as the eight foot tide buried much of the beach, and raised our perspective enough to see over to the inlet we'd come in.
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