seaside adventure

New Haven stands in a bay that made it an ideal site for an harbour. The G bus line takes you from downtown right to the Lighthouse Point Park some 5 miles from the center. At the bus company stand, they do not give you tickets, but you get tokens (like when you are a kid at the fair) that you insert in a machine when you get on the bus. They look like this, the hand is Marieanne's

We were three on our walk, Viccy, Marieanne and me. They are also visiting fellows at the YCBA. The park was deserted, beside the small lighthouse, there is an old carousel inside a large building. In sheltered corners one could see the seawater turning into ice.

We walked back all the way to the city, along other parks, a military base, this picture was taken from a fort that resisted English vessels during the revolution. It was an idea of Viccy to try to catch the light, and it did not came too bad.

Suburban streets filled with middle class housing followed, then motorways and railway junctions and the harbour, overall a very industrial area smelling of oil and exhaust fumes.