A day at the beach
(Looking for the AIRSPACE article? Just scroll down past the photo of me with the cardboard Mikhail Gorbachev. Thanks!)
Yesterday was a perfect beach day: warm, but not too warm; breezy, but not too breezy, sunny with puffy white clouds. Not only that, but it was the one day all year that Hoboken's beach was open to the public.
As if that weren't enough, the Fund for a Better Waterfront was offering free food: blackened bluefish, corn on the cob, and desserts. And as if THAT weren't enough to get us out in the noonday sun, the NYC Downtown Boathouse was taking people on free kayak rides in the Hudson. As you can see from these stitched photos, it may not be the prettiest or biggest beach in the world, but it's unquestionably the best beach in all of Hoboken. And very few of your tropical resort beaches can offer a clear view of a working drydock. Fortunately the hard-working crew scraping and painting Barge No. 45 took the day off. Click on the thumbnails below to see the larger images. While there's a bit of fish-eye-lens distortion to these stitched photos, they're pretty accurate representations of what we saw yesterday. Caution: Objects in Manhattan are closer than they appear.
posted by Janet Dagley Dagley @1:24 PM
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