August, done!

Got up reasonably early yesterday, rode 25 miles to the Peconic Bay Diner for breakfast, then continued east to Greenport, took the ferry to Shelter Island and the other ferry to North Haven, then west through Noyac, where we stopped for lunch at Jimmy Jim's diner. Good lunch! Proceeded on less familiar roads through the South Fork, then Dune Road and the usual route back to my house, total somewhere around 118 miles and almost 12 hours total time.

It was really humid! I drank three bottles of gatoraid and I don't know how much water. Needed it all. Was positively drenched in sweat all day. My saddle --one I had just recovered a couple weeks ago, so brand new-- went from being as hard as a rock to being completely saturated and therefore much softened. But it was comfortable, and it dried to the correct shape, so no problem there. We saw goldfinches, turkeys, blue herons, white herons, cormorants, an osprey... and a chipmunk. Can't remember what else!

Before breakfast we found an old Fuji, very rusty, but with enough potential that we went back for it later (in the car):


A vinyard on the North Fork:


And sunflowers, not quite in full bloom:


Some of our roads were actually marked as bike routes:


Long Island Sound:



North Ferry, to Shelter Island:


A golf course at Southhampton:


Tiana Beach (that's the Atlantic Ocean on the right):


And when we got home, I grilled some fish. Well, it was all too smoky for sure; I need practice.