I was listening to the weather today, and heard some not so fun news about one of our beautiful shore points, Cape May. They are experiencing some flooding. They showed a picture of water-filled streets that someone captured on their camera.
I’ve also heard that a woman went overboard late last night from a Norwegian Cruise Line ship at Atlantic City, another popular shore point, and it’s not easy to search for anyone during coastal storms like we’re experiencing today. I guess we’ll hear more about that later today.
I hope all will turn out okay, and I’m not here to post a lot of “gloom and doom”…life goes on, and life in Cape May is beautiful.
We have had the pleasure of vacationing there on a few occasions, and I had a class trip to the area when in 8th grade. To get there from here, we have to drive the length of the State of New Jersey…we live almost as far north as you can get, and Cape May is almost as far south as you can drive in NJ…approximately 3.5 hours away. Pictured is the Cape May lighthouse.
Cape May is not far from Wildwood, so we enjoy both beaches when we’re there. The walk to the water on Wildwood’s sandy beach is a long one on the hot sand if it’s a hot summer day, but that makes for a lot of area to enjoy the beach.
Wildwood is known for it’s LONG boardwalk (pictured). Walking the boardwalk is fun, and a fun activity is to ride bicycles on the boardwalk during hours when it isn’t too crowded.
There are spots as busy as Morey’s Pier in Wildwood:
or as serene as the sound of waves crashing on the beach:
(Pictures taken from Webshots…clicking any will take you to other photos.)
It’s May which means that the official start of the shore season begins here in NJ, it usually runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day. When my children were growing up, my parents would spend a few long weekends each summer at Ocean Grove. There were a few years that we went down to join them and celebrate my son’s birthday at the end of July.
Ocean Grove is known for it’s no alcohol policy, and observance of Sunday by following blue laws, generally a community that tries to maintain a high moral standard. It is a VERY popular destination, as you can see from this picture of a crowded beach:
This is not my personal favorite time to be on the beach, I’d much prefer being there after the busy season in September, at around sunrise or sunset, sitting on the beach looking at serene scenes like the following…nothing more soothing than the sound crashing waves:
Ocean Grove has a great boardwalk which takes you right to Asbury Park, and is known for it’s many Victorian homes, many along the ocean have been turned into hotels, like The Shawmont where my parents used to stay. We hope to take Mom down there this summer.
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I’ll have some more Jersey Shore posts in the days to come as the season is upon us!
We are blessed to live so close to the Ocean, of course here in New Jersey we call it the shore. It’s nice to dream about as we once again have snow falling outside our cabin. The shore season officially begins on Memorial Day, and ends Labor Day, but our favorite time to go is just after the season ends in September. It’s quiet, no traffic, the beaches aren’t crowded, the prices are lower and the weather is still beautiful most of the time.
I’m not a sun bather, so don’t spend a lot of time on the beach in the heat of the day, you’ll find me there at sunrise, or sunset, beautiful, peaceful times. As for where to go, wow, oh my there’s so many different places, I’ll tell you about some we’ve visited in other posts as the spring and summer months get closer, but…sigh…I just had to take some time to dream a bit.
I was listening to the weather today, and heard some not so fun news about one of our beautiful shore points, Cape May. They are experiencing some flooding. They showed a picture of water-filled streets that someone captured on their camera.
