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Bill with a brain sucking starfish on his head. Notice Kate in the reflection of his ass-kicking aviator sunglasses.
The Thimbles are an archipelago of 100 to 365 islands, depending on whether you count small rocks, reefs, ledges and sandbars that surface at low tide, off Branford, east of New Haven. The largest, Horse Island, owned by the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, is 17 acres. They look like chunks of coastal Maine — with pink granite bases and lush covers of hardwoods, pines and thickets — that have somehow ended up in Long Island Sound.
Their name, most locals agree, derives from the thimbleberry, a type of black raspberry, that used to grow on them in abundance.
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January 28, 2011
My mom has a huge collection of these. Looks like they could use some dusting....
The owner found out after he bought this island that it was too small to build a home on. The town let him build a gazebo. With the gas grill he's got in there, he can have some mighty fine cook outs! (the island, grill included!)
The Thimble Islands is an archipelago consisting of small islands in Long Island Sound, located in and around the harbor of Stony Creek in the southeast corner of Branford, Connecticut.