We weren’t in a hurry to leave so we didn’t depart until about 9am. We were going about thirty miles to our next port. “Port Jefferson, known less formally as “Port Jeff,” is the last major harbor on the north shore of Long Island when eastbound from New York City. Known to Connecticut and New York cruisers as “PJ,” it is a beautiful village located right on the harbor.” We had seen an anchorage and planned on dropping the hook at one of the few in the area. Upon approach we could see massive sand dunes and was able to get fairly close to shore around the dunes. We dropped anchor and waited a while before heading to shore. Once we got to shore there was nothing around except a large stretch of dunes and beach, so we explored that for the afternoon with Frank. We came back to the boat and hung out and hung on due to the wind and wakes from other boats. Eventually it calmed down a bit once the pleasure boats stopped coming and going. Our next stop as we continue northeast and up the Long Island Sound is Mattituck. We have good information on an anchorage there so it should be a good stop.
