Magnificent Long Island Sound

We spent the July 4th weekend in Northport, Long Island, anchored at the north end of the mooring field. Great town with farmer's market, laundromat, delis, grocery store(a short walk - uphill). There wasn't a designated town dinghy dock - but the bay constable graciously offered us his dinghy spot for a couple of days. We saw fireworks displays in all directions - very cool. On Sunday, July 5th, we sailed downwind with our spinnaker - 30 miles to Milford, CT. We anchored behind Charles Island. We dinghied into town - there is a beautiful town green here - second longest in New England (Boston is #1!). It was pretty rough at the anchorage; so sleeping wasn't the best! Yesterday we pretty much motored 35 miles to the mouth of the Connecticut River. We had our first experience in pea soup fog. For about an hour or so we had about 100 feet of visibility. Every few minutes we blew our horn and the radar was VERY helpful. We decided to head 6 miles up the river to check out Essex, CT for a couple of days. We anchored very near Essex, behind Nott Island - a peaceful, uncrowded anchorage. The mooring balls here are $50.00 and slips are $4.50 ft/day! We are very content at the anchorage. Today we went into town - there is a nice town dock where you can tie up the dink for a couple hours for free. We treated ourselves to lunch out at the fabled "Griswold Inn", then back to "Kismet" before the thunderstorm hit!