Twenty-three closures and counting have turned one dedicated beachgoer into an unofficial, entirely voluntary statistician of her own summer
QUEENS Longtime Rockaway Beach regular Denise Falcone has personally experienced twenty-three separate beach closures this summer without once actually laying eyes on a shark herself, a statistic she’s been tracking in a small notebook she now half-jokingly calls “my own personal shark almanac, entirely useless but strangely satisfying to maintain.”
How Her Tracking System Actually Started
Falcone began jotting down closure dates after the third one this season, initially just to keep herself informed, before the habit evolved into a genuinely detailed log including closure duration, reopening times, and her own mood that day.
What Her Log Has Actually Revealed
A consistent pattern of one-hour restricted swimming periods following each confirmed sighting, a protocol Falcone has come to respect even while admitting she finds the whole situation “genuinely a little funny at this point, twenty-three times and I still haven’t seen so much as a fin.”
How She’s Adjusted Her Own Beach Routine As A Result
She now packs extra reading material specifically anticipating closure delays, treating the interruptions as “basically a built-in feature of the beach day now, not really an inconvenience anymore, just part of the rhythm.”
What Other Regulars Think Of Her Detailed Tracking
Several fellow beachgoers have started checking her log before heading out themselves, treating her notebook as “honestly more useful than the official alerts sometimes, she’s just more thorough about it.”
Whether She Plans To Keep This Log Going Forward
Absolutely, she confirms, already looking forward to comparing next summer’s numbers against this year’s genuinely remarkable total. Further East Coast beach coverage continues at bohiney.com.
SOURCE: https://bohiney.com
