[Mr Port Jefferson]

I had always wanted to go to the Weirs to see the Fireworks from a boat (that was when the Weirs had fireworks every Sunday). So when I was old enough 20 something I rented a boat from Thurstons for a week and that Sunday, I loaded myself and my girlfriend (now wife) and various other family members onto the boat and we set out for the Weirs. We were staying at Saunders Bay Motel and Cottages on Sanders Bay (why there is a different spelling I don't know but that is another thread). We went under Govenors Island Bridge and tossed over the anchor to view the fireworks. What a site, we were under the bombs bursting in air and we all really enjoyed it. When the show was over we took off for home. It was a moonless night and so I thought I could get back no problem - I had been that way many times before in the day light - how wrong I was. We had a spot light and my girlfriend would lie on the bow to shine it and look for bouys and/or rocks. At one point she thought the water was running very fast but could not understand why we were not moving fast I told her the next day that the swiftly running water were bats flying over the surface of the lake looking for insects. We missed the entrance for the bridge and went around Gorenors Island - how we did not get stuck on the Witches I'll never know! - then suddenly we spotted the lights on in the old victorian house we were staying in in Sanders Bay (still standing by the way at a condo area now called Yacht Club Vista). It was a hair raising end to a great night but one we will never forget!