For our first hike of the year we choose a park we'd never visited before, Indian Island Park, a Suffolk county parkland of 275 acres. One can normally drive around and through it but after a heavy snow barricades were up part way inside to keep vehicles off the unplowed areas. It was a beautiful sunny day with almost no wind. We walked the perimeter along the sandy shore of Flanders Bay to the white sand causeway then across to the picnic area where we had lunch at a picnic table in a sunbeam. Descriptions of the park say the best times to visit are in the summer and early fall but the solitude of winter was perfect for us. There were a few cross country skiers in the park and two kayaks on the bay but that was about it.
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Jan 13, 2011
Indian Island Park
For our first hike of the year we choose a park we'd never visited before, Indian Island Park, a Suffolk county parkland of 275 acres. One can normally drive around and through it but after a heavy snow barricades were up part way inside to keep vehicles off the unplowed areas. It was a beautiful sunny day with almost no wind. We walked the perimeter along the sandy shore of Flanders Bay to the white sand causeway then across to the picnic area where we had lunch at a picnic table in a sunbeam. Descriptions of the park say the best times to visit are in the summer and early fall but the solitude of winter was perfect for us. There were a few cross country skiers in the park and two kayaks on the bay but that was about it.
Dec 21, 2009
It's Official, Winter, Day One 12/21/09
Some are calling our biggest snow event of all recorded time (National Weather Service) a blizzard but I think it's been more of a snow storm when compared to storms in my mother's youth. She remembers her father stringing a wire from the house to the barn so that he and the boys could get back and forth safely without losing their way in a blizzard that lasted for three days! We did get a full two feet of snow here on the North Fork and experienced some white-out conditions when gusts up to forty miles per hour occurred, swirling snow sideways and every other possible direction including up. High drifts have been removed from parts of Main Road where the wind with unobstructed fetch over farmland acreage scooped up snow and dropped it where it was most inconvenient. These spots have to be continually cleared until the wind dies down.
One beautiful side effect of the wind on snow is the way in which it sculpts free form shapes playing with light and shadow, making it a delightful wintry wonderland.
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Near white-out driving conditions. At night it was totally unsafe.
Three drift sculptures captured on a country lane in Southold Town. Please click on photos to enlarge.
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