You make an excellent point. Before or after the summer season changes what you see on shore. Houses that are normally lit up are dark.
About 20 years ago, on a fall night after a trip to Meredith with my daughter we headed home on a very dark night. All went well even after we went under the Governors Island bridge. But when we were where I knew our house was it was impossible to tell because all the lights in my house, and neighbors houses, were off.
I knew we were close but it could have been 5 houses in either direction so I went up and down about 300 feet offshore trying to spot something familiar. My daughter finally spotted the small red power on light on the panel for a hot tub we have in front of the house. That is when you know it is really dark. Thank God for kids and their eyesight! I never would have seen that.
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