The Atlantic Ocean-The Best “Live” Show On The East End

Almost everyone can remember going to an ocean beach with their parents. Who doesn’t remember experiencing the terror of being crushed by a wave as a child? Not to mention the sensation of feeling the ocean surf make your feet sink into the sand and gently pull.

There can be no doubt the first Native Americans to ever do these same things had the same feelings we all did. It’s just that sacred.

How many folks have witnessed someone from the interior experiencing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time? Watching as they experience the forces and science of dealing with waves, and current. I for one always look out over the horizon and think about what is out there on the opposite shore.

When one sits in a beach chair or lies on a beach blanket hearing the roar of the ocean’s waves just knows something magical happens. An energy is felt. It may be because one is at the location where matter in its three forms is in its largest volume and is interchanging. With gas, liquid, and solid matter colliding and releasing energy it has to affect us, how could it not?

I once lived off the ocean in Montauk for a few years. Seeing the night ocean sky every night and the stars along with the moon was never taken for granted. Walking my dog in the early morning along the ocean shore all year round is a pleasant memory I will take to the grave. Witnessing the various behaviors of the Atlantic Ocean on a daily basis was extraordinary when I think back to it. The white caps, the still calm days as well as the rain storms, snow falls and even the hurricanes/nor'easters!

Some might conclude the Atlantic Ocean is the best show in town for fishing, swimming, boating, surfing, lounging, partying, dating, running, walking, or just standing and admiring. I know I do.