The woman who vanished Sundꦗay after being swept into Jamaica Bay was wading in waist-deep water in an area where swimming is apparently not allowꦇed, police sources said Monday.
Anna Clarke, of Far Rockaway, told her mother she would be back soon when she and her high school sweetheart hubby, Day🌸le, headed to Bayswater Point State Park in Queens, less🔯 than a mile from home, family said.
Clarke, 35, was in the water with her husband near Mott Avenue and Point Breeze Place when she was suddenly overcome by the water current at around 5:30 p.m., cops said.
“She was wal🃏king in the waist-deep water with her husband. She tried to walk across the channel but started having trouble,” a pol🌳ice source told The Post.
A good Samarit♛an at the 12-acre park tried to🔜 save Clarke but was unsuccessful, police said.
Th♏e man grabbed her hand, but the cur🍷rent was too strong as it pulled Clarke under, sources said.
Grieving relatives gathered Monday at Clar▨ke’s ne👍arby home.
“She just loved life. She loved to travel. She loved the🥀 beach,” Clarke’s cousin Marceli🐓ne Wright, 52, said.
“She was the sweetest person.”
Wright said that Clarke and her husban♏d of five🍒 years had recently gotten back from Jamaica.
“My daughter spoke to her yeܫsterday. She was happy and excited,” 🍸Wright said.
Clarke’s husband, the cousin said, is “numb” as rescue crews scoured the waters for Clarke again on Monday after sℱearching for hours Sunday night to no avail.
Wright said that it wasn’t Clarke’s firsﷺt time in the water at the park, which is made up of beachfront, wetlands and woo♒dlands.
“They should’ve put a sign there that says no swimming. I didn’t see anything there,” Wright said. “I didn’t k๊now it was dangerous.”
Clarke’s distraught mo🍌ther,ꦓ Miriam, said she saw Clarke and Dayle — who both work in marketing — before they left for the park Sunday.
“They were both leaving and I said, ‘Where are you going?’ and the🅰y said, ‘We’ll soon be back.’✱ ”
Miriam said of the park’s shore, “The way I understand, that’s an area that people can walk across any time. But freak accidents happen, especially inဣ the water.”
A rep for the state’🉐s Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation did not respond to multiple🗹 requests on whether swimming is allowed at the park.
Additional reporting by Larry Celona