My brother and I go to Double Trouble State Park in Bayville, NJ about five times a week in the spring and summer. It is filled with acres of woods and old waterfalls -- man made of course!
A lone surfer scouts out a potential wave to ride on a quiet wednesday afternoon. Taken just weeks before the crowds would pour into Seaside Heights and other popular Jersey towns "down the Shore."
They say that you can find adventure in your own backyard, and man was that point driven home the other day... on a trip to the beach!
The Sandy Hook Lighthouse, located on the tip of Sandy Hook, New Jersey, is the oldest working lighthouse in the United States. It was designed and built in 1764 by Isaac Conro.
While I was living in New York City, my boyfriend and I took a day trip to Atlantic City since neither of us had ever been. Buses run frequently from various points in Manhattan.
From West 35th Street and Pier 11 Wall Street in Manhattan, the Sea Streak will get you to Atlantic Highlands and Highlands, New Jersey in no time at all. The accomodations are like a wide body jet on the sea with video for the Wall Street crowd.
On the banks of the Atlantic Ocean, one weekend in June each year is the Belmar Seafood Festival. All the local seafood restaurants show their stuff as they serve up the best is lobster, crab, shrimp, clams and local delicacies.
The Baronet Theatre is a couple blocks from the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. It opened in 1913 as the Ocean Theatre and was remodeled in 1953 to take on an art deco style.
Nothing like an ice cream at the beach.
Toward the end of summer 2007, the sun set over Lake Como, a little body of water on the border of Spring Lake and Lake Como adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean on the Jersey Shore. The water fowl are diverse and offer peaceful moments within a stones throw of the Atlantic Ocean.