We're in New Jersey!

We cruised all the way from the top of Delaware Bay to the Atlantic Ocean. As you can see on the Great Loop Route map, it's much shorter than the Chesapeake Bay and with few interesting places to stop. Delaware Bay is just the small straight part going Southeast at the end of the red line of our trip. Compared to Chesapeake Bay, with lots of stopoff places and extra side trips, Delaware Bay was nothing. But Hey! Look at that red line of our total trip.... we're really making progress!

We passed by a number of large barges, much larger and much taller than we see on the inland rivers and only a single barge being pushed by the tug instead of 6 to 15 barges tied together into a "tow".

We also passed by this nuclear power plant, or "nucular" as George would say. The rest of the shoreline was pretty much uninteresting, somewhat commercial looking or salt marsh areas. The NOAA forecast for today was for waves of only 1 ft., but it was actually 3 ft. all the way. So stay inside and run the windshield wipers again. At least it was a nice sunny day.

Cape May is the farthest tip of New Jersey on the North side of Delaware Bay. It has miles and miles of very nice beaches with real surf (about 2 to 3 ft. breakers) which I'm sure get a lot bigger on more windy days. Kathy found a few New Jersey seashells to add to her collection in the candlestand, but not very many good shells here. We'll stay in Cape May for a few days and then go up towards New York City. We'll wait here for good weather because we have to go outside in the Atlantic Ocean from here to NYC due to the poor condition and shoaling of the New Jersey ICW.