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From Your Flickr - Cherry Grove Don't

Every year you see it.  Some "nature lover" feeding the deer on the boardwalk or the beach.  Good intention though needs to be combined with knowledge though.  Feeding wild animals does more harm than good.  Even though this young buck is a handsome eight-pointer, he's best off photographed (as above by al_gardenhose) than fed Fritos.

From Your Flickr - Jones Beach, Field Six

I tend to forget about Jones Beach.  When folks say "It takes so long to get to Fire Island", but go to Jones, it's seems a bit dichotomous to me.  A civilized train-minivan-ferry is preferable to the train-insane bus-forced march to Jones' Field Six.  Once there, it is, though, a fantastic stretch of beach that goes on and on until the nudie section which can be either weird or amazing, depending on the day.  Perhaps one of the best features is that this beach is certainly a melting pot, as this image from Señor Frisky displays.

From Your Flickr - Rod's not going THIS deep into nature, but he's going away.

Image via Dominic Vine's Flickr.

From Your Flickr - Gunnison Beach, Sandy Hook, NJ

 

One of the most egalitarian of nude beaches in the area, Gunnison Beach in Sandy Hook always holds an eclectic mix.  A curious thing happened in searching for a picture of this sign.  Almost every user that goes to the nude beach to freely show their stuff, limits access to their Flickr pictures.  Luckily, ClemcoGTI has no such inhibitions.

 

From Your Flickr - Fort Tilden Beach

Part of the fun of Fort Tilden Beach is exploring the abandoned bunkers.  The concrete structures can serve as quick shelter from a sudden summer storm or a place to quickly change clothes (although some reek of urine) or, as this shot from DoubleBen shows, a place to lay your "sharkdick" tag.

From Your Flickr - Flaggery.

 

Via Keoki Seu's Flickr.

From Your Flickr - Fort Tilden Beach, 1988

 

Fort Tilden was sort of a "secret" city beach until recently, but it's been around forever, as this shot from 1988 shows.  The njhunkguy photostream is full of similar pictures of him, in Speedos, on beaches around the world.

 

From Your Flickr - Little Red Store

 

Last night Provincetown was in my dreams.  It wasn't a specific dream, just a nice summer day.  I bought bug spray at The Little Red Store and ran into friends from high school, as one does in dreams.  See you next month, store.

From M.V. Jantzen's Flickr

From Your Flickr - Pride

 
 There are hundreds, maybe thousands of images flagged "pride", "manhattan pride", "pride party" and so on.   This one from Vanissa Chan caught my eye, but take some time to put in some search terms on Flickr and see how everybody else's Pride turned out this year.

From Your Flickr - It's time for iPhone 4.0 Facetime.

 

A quick search for "FaceTime" on Flickr this morning returns exactly what is expected, as seen in this picture from thikstache.  Almost every person that was in line yesterday has already taken a snapshot of themselves using the (what is expected to be wildly popular) FaceTime feature.  It's so Jetson, it's Judy.

From Your Flickr - Boys in a Bunk (Vintage)

Remember. We're all in this together (maybe not THIS close, but still.).

Photo via dcwooten

This Is From Your Flickr - It's beginning to look a lot like Pride Week.

 

"Gay City" indeed, from Lul4z.

This Is From Your Flickr - The Ice Palace, Cherry Grove

 

Koitz caught Dallas Dubois cooling her heels in The Ice Palace pool, literally.

This Is From Your Flickr - Backyard Kiddie Pool

 
Via Gregtography 

This Is From Your Flickr - Christopher Street Pier

Titled "We Are Nothing But a Runner Cooling Down and His Spectator" this shot was shot by Sion Fullana.  With his iPhone.  Amazing?

This Is From Your Flickr - Brooklyn Pride

 

The Cheer NY squad from Saturday's Brooklyn Pride parade.  Via EJP Photo.