Seaborne adventures
It doesn’t get any better than a sunny day on the water. Cutting through the waves with a cool breeze whipping through my hair as salt spray glazes my cheeks. Ah, the scent of sea air. White sails...
View ArticleA pie in the face
To be a smoosher or to be smooshed? That is the question. Oh, what would Hamlet do?
View ArticleWhatcha doing under there sweetie?
Longport gets ready for summer with a smile (and a new clock, the better to log its speeding tickets perhaps).
View ArticleDeer on a pier: Downbeach deer finds his place in the sun.
Bucky the deer, who rose to legendary status while roaming the streets of Margate and Ventnor before wandering into the wrong neighborhood and being shot to death by Atlantic City police (yes, really),...
View ArticleVote on the top beaches
After five years of asking people to name their favorite beaches at the Shore, the New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium says the annual contest is the really gaining momentum.
View ArticleA new golden age for A.C.?
I’ve always been one of those people who’ll run in the opposite direction of a crowd. Maybe, it’s because my job will often send me right into the middle of a big bunch of people. Maybe I just don’t...
View ArticleExploring the Twin Capes
Before I let the rock of the waves and the hum of engines lull me off for a nice little nap on a recent crossing on the Cape May Lewes Ferry, I noticed a new promotion encouraging exploration of the...
View ArticleTreasure in the sand
I like to walk along the beach studying the carpet that has been laid before me by the tide: the shells, stones, bits of sea life swirling around in the little whirlpools.
View ArticleThis Section of The Boardwalk Is Closed. Yeah.
All was peaceful in the inlet at Grammercy Place, site of last week's Boardwalk collapse. Is there a nicer spot at the Jersey Shore?
View ArticleGov. Christie vows to enact sports betting in A.C., drinks a Yuengling at the...
Gov. Christie comes to the Boardwalk to pronounce the city safer than ever, vows to enact sports betting in town by the fall and drinks a Yuengling at the Irish Pub, and says he's still waiting for the...
View ArticleCanadian tourist stabbings: in A.C.: The police 911 audio tape
"It's gonna be serious," the police officer says.
View ArticleNo beer for you in Ocean City
Ocean City voters trounce the measure that would have allowed people to bring a bottle of wine or a six pack to dinner at a restaurant.
View ArticleSummer 2012 in Jersey: Welcome Army Corps of Engineers! And a great new...
Just like they said they wouldn't, the Army Corps will be your companion this weekend and into summer, making noise, blocking walkways to the beach and keeping those dunes higher than anyone wants.
View ArticleU.S. Army Corps Invites itself down over Memorial Day
In Ventnor, hobie cats are ordered off the beach until possibly June 1st, though Public Works head David Smith says he is hopeful the corps will be done with that portion of their work before Memorial...
View ArticleSuddenly, under water: June moon, high tide put Ventnor heights and elsewhere...
Sometimes, it's the storms less hyped that wreak the most havoc. Or, in Monday night's case, the June full moon, astronomical high tides and off shore winds which led to rising water that was recorded...
View ArticleUPDATE: Video of "crazy almost tornado" at Absegami H.S. Graduation, UPDATE:...
This is nuts. As Dan Skeldon of Channel 40 weather pointed out, cool video, but was it really a good idea to try to squeeze in the big graduation with terrifying storm clouds approaching?
View ArticleIf you thought this spring seemed really hot … then you were correct!
Climatological spring ended on June 1, and this year marked one of the hottest on record in the northeast, according to Jessica Rennells, a climatologist and extension support specialist at the...
View ArticleSchools out for the summer, but not here
If you’re a foodie at the Shore this summer, this sounds like so much fun: The Viking Cooking School at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City is offering a star-studded summer lineup of cooking classes...
View ArticleWatching Metallica Surf and other tales of Atlantic City
Like a heavy metal version of the traditional Miss America dip into the Atlantic Ocean, Metallica bandmates hit the ocean to sort of surf the day after their first set, and Bader Field and Atlantic...
View ArticleThe next morning after the storm in Downbeach, are you still here?
The second morning after a freakish and devastating storm ripped through Atlantic County, the shore towns of Ventnor, Margate and Longport are still partly without power and it seems a lot of people...
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