Preparing to get a fish's eye view of Sandy Hook Bay.

Learning how to properly pull the seine net, after the girls show us the right technique. 

A fish's eyeview of the bay using masks and snorkels. Fall is the best time, when the water is warm and clear, and the fish are abundant. 

Hauling the seine net in deep water requires some improvising by the students.

A juvenile bluefish, or snapper. The bay is so rich in food that the snappers grow over one half inch per week.

The moon jelly is a common resident of the bay in the fall. It has weak tentacles and stingers and can be handled without worry.

No visit to the shore is complete without a climb to the top of a lighthouse. Twin Lights Historic Site is the best lighthouse museum on the coast.

The first snow of 2000 blankets the famous maritime holly forest on Sandy Hook.

The newly renovated Sandy Hook Lighthouse is a perfect background for a holiday card photograph.

Battery Potter is like a natural cave with overwintering bats and other creatures, and stalactites and stalagmites. Temperatures do not vary much within the structure and are cool in the summer and warm in the winter.