I am asking somebody I know who works for USGS tomorrow, and some surveyors about the other photo. About that 2nd Riddle of the Day: I can't tell if it's a wire rope, a surveyor's piece of equipment, such as a surveyor's chain, or just some debris that fell off of somebody's truck as they drove by the little path that leads down to Hemlock Cove. If straightened out, I wonder if how long it is; if it was used to measure a radius of some sort.
Again, getting there via Google Earth is pretty easy. Just enter, "Hemlock Cove, Babylon, NY" and zoom in until the little box that actually repeats, "Babylon Town-Jones Beach walkway to Hemlock Cove" appears. Keep zooming in a bit. When on the Parkway, which you can view from streetview later, if you want, move west a tad, maybe 20 or so feet--I think this is the site of the unidentified Asian man's remains. Is it? Use the history gauge, click back to 4th of July, 2007. What is that rope, gear, chain, fishing equipment, what?