Wading River - Long Island
The big pond on North Country Road Since my sister mentioned she is spending all of her time in Venice, and I know that springtime is the most beautiful season to be there, plus Sunday was wrapped by a mist so familiar (and so unhealthy!) I got a bit into a Venice-mood - which brought to my mind some of the things Long Island and Venice have in common. Did you know that Venice is also fish-shaped? Little digression. On Sunday I ended up (literally, I was just trying to get out of the way) visiting Wading River. Until few weeks ago, this place meant for me not more than the Wildwood State Park and the trailer park you'd see driving to there. I thought of Wading River more or less as an abandoned place. Truth is that the Park is great - even though, after the last nor'easter, erosion damaged a lot of its beach, so the concession stand on the deck overlooking the shore was (at least until last week) not accessible and it seemed to me nobody was going to take ca...