Summer Days

The weather has been very erratic this year. It's June, and it finally looks like the warm weather is here to stay. It's time for sunshine, music, bubbles and pools. In whatever order you like.

A Walk Around Flushing Meadow Corona Park

I took a four hour walk around Flushing Meadow Corona Park. I haven't done this for awhile. The weather was a bit muggy. There was a brief shower but that was no issue. The water sprouts were on at the Unisphere. It's a good place to get wet and cool down in the summer.

Domino Park

There's a new public park in Brooklyn. It's called Domino Park. It's located right next to Williamsburg bridge. There is a children's park and a playground with rows of water sprouts. It's a heaven for my kids. There's also a long strip of green lawn for scantily dressed adults to soak up the sun. You can get more history about this place via https://www.dominopark.com/.

Heatwave Starts Today

I didn't want to go outside today, but there are some undone business at the bank. So, I ventured out into the 90 degree heat. It wasn't so bad. Not yet, anyway. This is the view of Empire State Building.

Sailing away...

Or so I wished...

NYC Whales & Dolphins Watching

We no longer have to drive to Boston to go on a whale-watching cruise any more. There is American Princess Cruises right there on the Rockaway in Queens New York. I found out about it last year and finally get to go with my family to see the whales.

The cruise went around the Rockaway Peninsula into the Atlantic Ocean. We were able to see the NYC skyline at all time, but not a single sign of whales. We cruised around some giant schools of fish along the shore. The marine biologist on board insist that the whales should be around since we were literally floating on the seafood buffet for whales.

We finally gave up on the whales, but we did met a big pod of dolphins feeding and jumping around. At least we got something. I shot over one thousand photos of them, but only get to keep five. These critters were fast. I only managed to catch their backs and tails. Next time I'll just bring along a camcorder. At least I can catch the actions.

On the background, it's New York City skyline.

That's Verrazano Bridge connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island on the background.

We were right outside New York Harbor, so there were many container ships sailing about.

This is a big group. There were at least 30 or 40 of them playing about.

Here's another shot of them.

Seagulls keep following our ship, probably hoping to catch some discarded food.

This is the ship we rode on.

There were tons of fish swimming about, but no whales came to eat them.

My son loved this old sailor for some reason.

Coney Island

This is probably going to be the only beach trip this year. We are expecting another baby on June 29. There will be no time to take the kids to beach any more this year. They enjoyed every moment of it.