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First they killed the fireworks at Jone’s Beach for 4th of July. Now the Blue Angels won’t be there for Memorial day this summer.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Sublime w/ Rome - Don’t Push/Garden Grove/Right Back

(Live at Jones Beach 7/20/2010)

this isn’t my video. i found it on youtube.

Sublime - Slow Ride

This is one of my favorites from them.

Going to see Sublime w/ Rome tonight at Jones Beach. I saw them in May at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC and I’m just as excited for tonight as I was 2 months ago!

I got a lot of responses about the photo I posted yesterday of the dead humpback whale that washed up on Jones Beach yesterday. There were a lot of replies, reblogs, and a few people even emailed me. So I just want to shed some light on the situation and clear a few things up.

Firstly, the death and washing up of the whale has absolutely nothing to do with the oil spill in the gulf.

Second, this happens every single year. Just a few months ago, a humpback whale washed up on a beach out in East Hampton. Just last week, a dolphin washed up at Gilgo beach and last summer a shark washed up not to far from Gilgo too. Because I surf, I spend more time on or at the beach year round then most people do and every single year I will see some sort of sea life washed up onshore, whether it is a whale, shark, dolphin, seal, or any other kind of fish that frequent the Atlantic Ocean.

This is not an uncommon occurrence and it is nothing out of the ordinary, especially for whales at this time of the year.  That is because whales, and especially humpback whales migrate huge distances between the Caribbean and the Northern Atlantic. After giving birth during the winter or early spring, mothers bring their calves to the feeding grounds in parts of the Gulf of Maine.

Everyone needs to consider that Long Island is a very large piece of land. The south shore has right around 120 miles of Atlantic Ocean facing beaches and when you factor that in to where these whales and other sea life take their routes it doesn’t seem so crazy that every year we see them washed up on our beaches.

Sometime animals get sick and they get weak and they die. It just so happens that Long Island sticks out into the Atlantic and the ocean currents bring the deceased onto the shore.

A dead 30 foot long humpback whale washed up on Jones Beach this morning. 

More details about the whale, here.

The Jones Beach July Fourth fireworks display won’t take place this summer, state parks officials reiterated Monday - even if Albany restores cuts to the parks budget.

The state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation stated in February that it was canceling the 15-year-old show because of a shortage of state park police officers to patrol the event. Monday, the agency issued a statement to reaffirm that decision so potential sponsors and parkgoers can plan accordingly.

Well this fucking sucks!

There were rumors going around the internet today that due to high restoration costs that they would be tearing down the Jones Beach Tower. This made me really sad as this is a well known landmark on Long Island. I’m glad to report that these rumors are false!!

(via jblifeguard.org)