Outdoor adventures and activities with kids in the Hamptons, New York, USA. Nature reserves, parks and trails to explore as well as local stories.
Every five seconds the light from Montauk Point Lighthouse reaches ships as far as 19 nautical miles away. A beacon from the eastern tip of New York’s Long Island signaling to those at sea they’re near a dock or a bay. I went there with my children. They played amongst the lighthouse shadows, memorials and paths. While the […]
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Luce and Theo marching by sculpture of legs in Sag Harbor in the Hamptons When I took this photo in 2013 of Luce and Theo walking under the Leg sculpture, little did we know that ‘Larry’s Legs’ was already the focus of a zoning battle. The 16-foot-high pair of legs by artist Larry Rivers were
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My kids were just expecting to do some trick or treating and wear their spooky costumes but they experienced a full-blown wild day of celebrations when we had Halloween in the Hamptons. in 2012 we moved here from London in mid-October. Then woosh Hurricane Sandy swept in two days before All Hallow’s Eve. We emerged from a night
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A year ago this week we experienced Hurricane Sandy. Two weeks before the superstorm struck we moved from London to a small town on the water in Long Island. Our rented house had a beautiful view of the water. Just a little field between us and the beach where deer would gather every night at
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Last weekend we went to the Great Pumpkin patch. At least that’s what I told my kids it was. “Every year Linus writes to the Great Pumpkin. And every year he waits in the most sincere pumpkin patch he can find, hoping to see his mysterious hero.” It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown by Charles
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Would you like to watch the sunset? I asked my children. School day over. Homework done. They thought I was going to take them into the garden and try to glimpse it through the trees. But I knew a place where they could see the sky blaze. A bay with a view to the West.
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