Video: Huge Waves generated by Sandy create breach at Old Inlet (10-30-12)
Here is a video taken from Bellport Dock the day after Sandy hit our area. If you look closely, what initially looks like dunes are actually huge wa…
Tag: Old Inlet
Photos: Seals arrive on Fire Island right on schedule
Another sign of Winter is the annual arrival of Seals from their summer grounds. This Seal was spotted right off the beach at Smith Point 10-26-16 t…
Photos: Aerials over Old Inlet: August 2013
By Mike Busch I was lucky to be invited to fly over Old Inlet back in August 2013 by Dr. Charles Flagg of the Stony Brook University School of Marin…
Breaking: National Park Service prefers to leave Old Inlet Open
The National Park service prefers to leave the Old Inlet Breach alone unless they are forced to close it. At least that is the way they are …
Photos: Best of the Long Island Sun Chasers (10-21-16)
As we move deeper into Fall the Long Island Sun Chasers continue to capture stunning images of Fire Island and beyond. Besides the emptier beaches a…
New York Times Tours Old Inlet with Save the Great South Bay and Great South Bay Images
A few weeks ago I brought Marshall Brown of Save the Great South Bay and Lisa Foderaro of the New York Times on a tour of Old Inlet, the only breach cr…
Park Service: Breach findings should be released ‘in the coming weeks’
The federal government will soon let it be known whether or not it intends to close the Fire Island breach at Old Inlet. The Draft Fire Island Wildern…
‘Rescue in the Breach’ responders honored in Bellport Village Hall
The Bellport Village Board on Monday recognized 13 people, as well as Fire Island National Seashore rangers, for coming to the aid of eight people …
Photos: Breach at Old Inlet update; Pelican Island no longer visible
Greaterfireisland.com took Marshall Brown of Save the Great South Bay on a tour of the waters around the Old Inlet breach Friday afternoon. The inle…
Photos: Wellcraft sits in the sand after capsizing in the Fire Island breach
Bellport Village resident Thomas V. Schultz, the co-director of Friends of Bellport Bay, headed out to the breach at Old Inlet today, Tuesday, and caug…
