Local Voices
The Great South Bay Is The Best Place To Play
Boating, swimming, fishing, kayaking, Paddle boarding, jet skiing are just some of the things one can enjoy on our Great South Bay!
It is a gift that keeps on giving. It has beauty and powers we all admire. We all stand on its shores and bask in the summer sunlight or the chill of the dead winter breeze. We have felt it so warm and seen it so frozen. The Great South Bay is a gift that just keeps on giving.
The Native American fished there and actually taught the western settlers how to survive around it. The early railroads brought tourists out to to escape the torture of a non-air conditioning existence in the brick canyons of the city long before the Hamptons.
Famous steamboats ferried folks about and eventually Fire Island became what it now is. Robert Moses, the great road builder actually was inspired by his early in life love of the Great South Bay!
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In the summertime one can see young families at Corey Beach enjoying the shallow safety for the young ones. Not to mention the multitude of homes with private docks for the family boats. Then there are the countless marinas from Bay Shore to the Moriches on the north side of the Bay and the towns and marinas and Ferry landings on the Fire Island south side.
it is a playground, a sacred fishing zone, and a place to sit an enjoy the serenity of scenic shoreline. To those who have grown up and spent most of their lives very close to it, The Great South Bay is their friend.
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Now when the storms come it can be dangerous and menacing. It can break your heart if it floods your basement and destroys your garden. It has that power. Yet, then there is the wildlife! The hundreds of types of birds from hunting ospreys to the uncountable sea-gulls that roam the designated wetlands sanctuaries that exists on its shores.
It has sections that are National Park designated and other sections owned by Long Islanders with their private water fronts.
But most of all it is ours to enjoy all year round because it is our local body of water. Please keep clean its it’s shoreline and help fight to keep the water as pure as possible given the reality of so many towns on its shores.
