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Photos: Sunset on the Long Island Sound

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Long Island has amazing sunsets.

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Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.

A trip aboard any boat into the Long Island Sound afford you some great sunsets. Whether you have your own boat or book a charter on a sailing cruise you are sure to be dazzled by the sun sinking below the Long Island Sound on a clear summer twilight.

 

Scroll down for some amazing sunset photos captured by the crew of The Ginny Marie Schooner on a twilight charter.

 

Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.

 

Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.

 

Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.

 

Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.

 

Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.
 
Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.
 
Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.
 
Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.
 
Photo: Courtesy Ginny Marie Schooner.

 

 

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