The breakers at the bubbly pool are not to be taken lightly. Earlier this year someone decided, against advice, to climb out onto the rocks beyond the grotto. He was swept out to sea by a rip tide and drowned.

August 20, 2020 - New York, NY - NYPA President and CEO Gil Quiniones visits NYPA's brand new Breaker II tug boat as it stops in lower Manhattan en route to the Niagara Power Project, where it will join the fleet of other boats. (Philip Kamrass/ New York Power Authority)

Breakers Hotel Complex

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

The St. Nicholas Breaker sans tipple.

Newport, RI

August 20, 2020 - New York, NY - NYPA President and CEO Gil Quiniones visits NYPA's brand new Breaker II tug boat as it stops in lower Manhattan en route to the Niagara Power Project, where it will join the fleet of other boats. (Philip Kamrass/ New York Power Authority)

Power systems also need to be maintained to keep the plant up and running.

[alt text: Large gray breaker panels with various lights, switches, and buttons.]

Photo: NPS / Kristi Rugg

Behind the rotunda. Quite a bit of construction had already started even though the hotel was still partly occupied.

Bay to Breakers 2010

August 20, 2020 - New York, NY - NYPA President and CEO Gil Quiniones visits NYPA's brand new Breaker II tug boat as it stops in lower Manhattan en route to the Niagara Power Project, where it will join the fleet of other boats. (Philip Kamrass/ New York Power Authority)

The old main section rooms are windowless and gutted.

Photo by Judith Gibson-Okunieff

Ice Breaker construction at SeaWorld Orlando

Every bit as mesmerising as the Pacific.

Breakers at Marilyn Bell Park in Parkdale, Toronto, mid-afternoon Dec 2008

The St. Nicholas Breaker sans tipple.

Photo by Judith Gibson-Okunieff

Photo by Judith Gibson-Okunieff

Day 3

Sally lightfoot crab on the shore.

Photo by Judith Gibson-Okunieff

Photo by Judith Gibson-Okunieff