Originally Posted by
Russ Roth
Nice, Norman Levy has nice kayaking that'll give you a good view of the southern shoreline, located just off the Meadowbrook on Merrick.
Good life vest is a solution to swimming like a bowling ball. Might be out of season but Bellmont lake state park has kayak rentals and lots of little areas to explore on the north side of the lake for a fun but easy tryout, not certain it gets much deeper than a few feet making swimming unnecessary if you mess up and no currents to worry about.
To use Norman Levy you need to launch and return within an hour of high tide as it has a lot of mud at the launch. As well its a schlep down a barrow and boring canal to the bay. There are other and better launch sites on the south shore IMO.