Outdoor adventures and activities with kids in the Hamptons, New York, USA. Nature reserves, parks and trails to explore as well as local stories.
If you asked my children which is their favorite beach in the Hamptons, their reply would probably be Long Beach. Why? Seashells and sunsets. Yes I came here in the evening with my kids too! It’s a mile long strip on a bay shore near Sag Harbor, commonly known as Long Beach and officially as the Foster Memorial […]
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Last weekend I was walking on a village side street in the Hamptons when I saw this Fabulous Eldorado Cadillac convertible. A dog was sitting in the front passenger seat. I wanted to stop and admire this fire-red, fuel-guzzling classic car but my kids had whizzed on ahead on their scooters. I turned around to take
We first went to the wrong car park at Camp Hero in Montauk, but we didn’t know it. In front of us was a bluff with a warning to keep back 25 feet as it was undermined. To our east was the Montauk Point Lighthouse and to the west at the top of the hill
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I came across a meadow of wild flowers in Southampton Village last week, while my daughter was rehearsing for her ballet show nearby. And then I found out that in 1640 the first settlers of Southampton in Long Island had walked and planted on this same site. I was in Southampton’s ‘Old Town’. Daisies, coneflowers, lupines, clovers
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On the gates of a house in Meadow Lane in Southampton are a pair of mermaids. I took this photo this week as I kept passing the gates when visiting a small nature reserve on this Hamptons road known as Billionaire’s Lane. I found this quote in a 1997 edition of the New York Times:
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There’s a boardwalk on Munn Point where wild birds find haven. A nature preserve on the bay side of a beach strip known as Billionaire’s Lane. While tycoons land at the helipad at the end of Meadow Lane, migrating birds soar in on their own wings. They have no need of 20 to 40 million
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