Park Unit 1 Revisited: Fire Island National Seashore

We were spending the weekend at the "Beach House" in Westhampton and we decided to visit more of the Fire Island National Seashore units that we haven't been to. We decided to go to Smith Point to the Wilderness Visitor Center. We met John and his parents there and combined a national park visit with a family visit!



There's a relatively new visitor center here with a small room of artifacts and a terrific observation deck.


The views of the beach and wilderness area between the ocean and the bay were stunning.

There was also a lot of information about how the NPS is studying the breach of the barrier island during Hurricane Sandy.


Then we walked over to the TWA Flight 800 Memorial Garden to meet John and his parents.

We had a lovely time connecting with them, then we walked back to the visitor's center and took the path through the wilderness area. We finally gave up when the mosquitos got too bad (we left the bug spray in the car). We also stopped at Smith Point and picked some bayberries that we hope to make into a bayberry candle!



We'd like to come back again soon to walk all the way down to the breach!