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I dreamed we were going to the Statue of Liberty with some friends. It
might have been the folks from Phoenix Swords, but I’m not 100% sure.
The park that led to the statue was very nice. It had lots of grass and
trees and looked quite rural.
To get to the statue you had to walk along a narrow rock wall that ran out
into the harbor. It was about 3 feet above the water and less than that
wide. So, there would not be room for someone coming the other way to pass.
We walked out about half way and found that the level dropped abruptly. It
looked like there had been a break in the wall and the part out to the
statue had sunk. It was just below the level of the water, and the water
would have reached my ankles.
The water was very still. More like a lake in the morning than New York
harbor.
It still was a drop down and I wasn’t sure how easy it would be to climb
back up.
Also, I didn’t know if the tide was coming in or going out. What was only
a few inches of water now could trap us at the statue for hours if this was
low tide.
“Let’s go back and see if this is low or high tide,” I said to the others.
We walked back to the park. There was a low wood building painted green
near the entrance so we headed over there.
I thought it would be the park ranger station, but when we went in, it
turned out to be a gift shop.
We milled around looking for something saying what tide it was or when the
tide levels were.
By the cash register I saw they had some laminated menus from restaurants.
I picked up one as it looked like it had a night time photo of the castle
in Saint Augustine on it.
“Is this Saint Augustine?” I asked the ranger behind the cash register.
“No, it is in Connecticut,” the man said.
He pointed to the bottom of the menu where it gave a town in CT I had never
heard of before.
“That will be $14.95,” he said.
“I didn’t want to buy it,” I said. “I just wanted to know where the photo
was taken.”
“You shouldn’t waste my time,” he said.
“I just want to know what is the current tide for walking out to the
statue.”
“There is a sign outside,” he said, pointing to the Exit sign.
“Will I have to pay to get back in?”
He looked very unhappy at that question and I was sure he was planning to
charge me, but he said “no”.
We went out and looked at the sign.
It was a big wooden sign with three choices: High tide, Low Tide, or The
Tide is Changing.
There was a big arrow to “The Tide is Changing”.
I was quite mad about this as it didn’t say which way, and that had been
the whole point.
Dream ends

There was a breakwater like the one to walk to the statue near my aunt’s
cottage where I spent my summers growing up. But, it was only twenty feet
long and just ran out into the water.
It was broken half way and did go a bit farther just above the low tide
level. There used to be a fried clam place in the same parking lot. We’d
get some clams and eat on the breakwater.
No idea what ties that into the Statue of Liberty or park rangers that want
to charge you for everything.