Dr. Charles Flagg took another flight over the Breach at Old Inlet on Fire Island on February 16, 2022. The flyover mosaic is available below. Dr. Flagg conducted the flight after noticing that the salinities at Bellport Bay were low and he was curious if the Breach had closed. The flight took place around 9AM, about 1.5 hours past high tide in the ocean. He noted that there is an interesting amount of dry land in the flood delta.
Mark Lang has assembled all the geo-referenced photo mosaics into a kml file that can be viewed using Google Earth. By clicking between images and using the fade in-out button you can clearly see how the inlet is changing with time. An offline version of the KML file is available as KMZ. The full size image is also available.
For more information, please visit Dr. Charles Flagg’s website.
