Robert Moses Beach After Labor Day Weekend 2010

Robert Moses  N.Y. State Park is the best beach in the world, according to me and my friends, Robert & Elizabeth Schmid.

It looks pretty empty now that it is after Labor Day weekend.

We  bring a beautiful box of red rapsberries and a mixed bag of nuts and dried fruit, trying to be good and continue on a healthy diet.  The snack bar was open.

Children are for the most part, back in school now.

Red warning, "no swimming" flags were still up because
of the rough surf due to last week's hurricanes.

 Green, "it's ok to swim"  flags were positioned very close
to the life guard's stand.  The yellow flags indicate
that on this beach, boogie boards are permitted.

We arrived fairly early, so some of the life guard stands were not up yet,
and the swimmers were restricted to a smaller stretch of the beach.

This New York State Beach is on the south shore of Long Island,
sort of in the middle of the island.  It is named after Robert Moses .

Robert Moses worked as an urban planner.  To some he was a bit demanding, but he saved vast stretches of the north shore and south shore beaches for public use. The waves were up today, and only the really brave,   strong swimmers tempted the force of the undertow. It is truly a beautiful stretch of white sandy beach, although some of it has been eroded by the late summer storm.  It comes back. Just sitting there, walking on the sand, people watching, was wonderfully relaxing. The Piping Plovers were out skirting the waves looking for small creatures to eat.  A fellow enjoying salt water fishing, was casting off the beach. Another gentleman was seriously outfitted for metal detecting underwater. We walked along the beach and I had to take this picture for all who thing that you cannot find places on Long Island where you can be very alone. Early on a weekday this beach is only  sprinkled with people.  You can easily walk to a spot and be very solitary.   The three of us take cameras along, Elizabeth and I blog, and Robert uses his as inspirations for his artworks.  The beach begins to fill in with people and other life guard stands go up while the area between the green flags increases. The large bag was something that I brought back from my stay in Morocco with the Schimids.  The other is a new smaller version that Elizabeth found in a N.Y. C. street vender's stand this year.  I asked her to look for one for me.   Check out her blog, the World Examining Works.  I use mine as a beach bag, and I like the extra-long straps for slinging my" beach stuff" over my shoulder.   The smaller one looks perfect for every day use. A little later, some older kids were using their Boogie Boards in the perfect surf. The beach was getting somewhat crowded, so we pulled up stakes and started for the parking lot.  The metal detecting man was doing a return scan. "Wonder if he found anything?