What I came for

What a turnaround: Now this is what I came to the beach for. A beautiful sunny morning, and thanks to my friend U. who has a car, my destination was a beach twenty minutes away with absolutely no people on it. This stretch looks nothing like the rest of the New York City beaches. It's in a private gated community. If you know where it is you know. The waves were small and gentle and I loved being out alone. Unfortunately U. had to go to work after about eight waves, so I headed back to my home stretch.

It was still lovely out and I got some good rides on these little 2-3 foot waves. Finally! Only a few guys were out, people were friendly and the hanging around on the beach afterwards, thanks to the bizarre random shuffle of surfers that occured this particular time, was hilarious.