NY Naval Ensign Flag field guide one at a time

one at a time

Good times are never hard to find on the water

Not that you needed to know

but apparently the waves were pumping

beautiful and secluded area of Robert Moses State Park - with perhaps the darkest night skies within driving distance from New York City

NY Naval Ensign Flag field guide one at a timeIn 1775, as the Revolution took hold, New Yorkers hauled down the British flag and raised a white flag with a single black beaver at its center; flown from the armed ships of New York as a break from the Crown. The beaver traced back to the Dutch settlers of New Netherland, a symbol of the fur trade that built the colony into a city. No documented illustration of the original has ever been found, but the beaver never left. It's still the official