June 26-28, 2017 Monday-Wednesday
Monday, June 26: With a positive weather forecast, we opted to take the Atlantic Route up the coast of New Jersey to New York. It was positively glorious to be on the blue water of the Atlantic Ocean again, where we saw many seabirds, dolphins, whales, fishermen, and vessels of all types.
Our first stop, Atlantic City famed for its boardwalk and beaches, convention center, and casinos. Our marina, Farley State Marina/Golden Nugget was about two miles from the boardwalk, by the time we walked to the boardwalk, down the boardwalk, and part way back up our poor feet were begging for a rest so we caught a Jitney back to the marina.
Atlantic City Boardwalk was the first boardwalk in the United States (1870), is sixty feet wide and just over six miles long, currently the world’s longest wooden walkway.
The Atlantic City Convention Center was home to the Miss America pageant from 1929 until 2004, and has hosted celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, Dean Martin the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, among many others and contains one of the world’s largest musical instruments, a 33,000-pipe organ. During World War II the center, known as Boardwalk Hall, was used as a training facility for the U.S. Army, soldiers could be seen marching down the boardwalk and conducting mock beachfront invasions on the beautiful beaches.
Tuesday, June 27: Today we continued up the Atlantic coast, the long white sandy beaches with water towers denoting the coastal communities seem to go on forever, we saw as many as ten water towers at a time. New Jersey has roughly 130 miles of ocean coastline and 160 miles of coastline along the Delaware River, by the time we reach New York, we will have seen most of its coastal miles.
Tonight we are at Brewer Crystal Point Marina, Point Pleasant Beach, NJ. We pulled up to the fuel dock, our first self-service fuel dock and pump-out station, and as Rick serviced the boat I went to find the dock master’s office. This is a family owned marina and, as it turned out, they are “closed” on Tuesday and Wednesday. We were very lucky, one of the dock hands had been out fishing with friends and was at the dock. He was off duty but told us where we could tie up and borrowed a restroom and laundry key for us to use. Perfect, we were all set for a work afternoon. I did laundry while Rick was on boat duty and, although we did not have time to explore the area we did have an outstanding sunset, it seemed like the sky was on fire.
Wednesday, June 28: Today we passed Sandy Hook, took the Ambrose Channel to New York’s upper harbor and anchored Andiamo behind the Statue of Liberty. The anchorage was a bit bumpy, but what an amazing site. We loved watching the boating activity and enjoyed watching the city turn from daylight to night.
