Turns out the gentleman flying the drone (Michael) is not a regular visitor to Clove lake. In fact he doesn't even live on Staten Island (Brooklyn I believe he told me). We had quite a nice long conversation. He was trying out his drone, doing all sorts of things to get it's flight pattern parameters just the way he need for them to be, which required quite a few maneuvers. He wanted a big open space to do it in, and Clove Lakes was the place he decided to come to to try.
He told me he could set the drone to fly several pre-planned patterns ( figure 8 's and the like) or follow him around taking pictures, or any other number of really cool tricks. Awesome toy! Quite a pleasant diversion for me, as our two different hobbies had us crossing paths on this beautiful summer day.
