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If this isn't a Sublime place, I don't know what is....

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I'm at the Fire Island Wilderness Visitor Center....Near Shirley, L.I. NY...

This is the most eastern part of the "Fire Island National Seashore"...It is part of the 32 miles / 50 km long island and between 520 and 1,310 feet (160 and 400 m) wide...

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I'm standing on an observation tower looking west over the wilderness area...Looking down the Island with the Atlantic ocean on the left and the Great South Bay to the right...

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The Island is in constant change through the seasons..It use to be a continuous Island but hurricane Sandy breached an opening a mile and a half down the beach...

Now it is a non navigable inlet to the bay...making Fire Island two islands..

My plan was to walk to the inlet and back... It's the only way to see it other than a boat...

From the observation tower there is a nice trek boardwalk that takes you through the inner dunes and out to the beach...

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One last look before I go...

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The walk ends on a rise with a walk through the sand dunes till you see the ocean...

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Looking back to the tower from where I started

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Finally down to the beach where my walk really begins...It was a perfect day having thin clouds blocking the harsh sun so I wouldn't burn to much...

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It was low tide with lots of different shore birds finding food, whatever that maybe in the exposed sand...

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My first time this year at the ocean, and what a Sublime day it was...

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