We celebrated Dottie's birthday by leaving AC at 8:15 AM and traveling the 60 some miles to Cape May. It was a very long and twisty ride., You see, we took the inside route (ICW) all the way. Had we gone outside and taken the ocean, it would have been only a 32 mile ride.
The Jersey ICW added, probably double the mileage, but it was slow and leisurely, and of course well worth it.. We went through Ventnor, Margate and Longport......all towns that I knew really well from my teens of growing up in Margate.
What changes have happened over the past 30 some odd years, properties that were selling for 20 and 30 G;s are now selling for 300-500K. Since Superstorm Sandy hurt, Jersey has changed it building code to one of safety and pre-cautionary.....all waterfront homes, now, must be built on stilts at least 16 feet high. We also went through some very narrow channels and "skinny water" and by skinny I mean shallow, 2 feet or less under our keel and by narrow I mean channels that are maybe 20' feet wide.
After passing the inlet at Longport, we were in Ocean City, then Sea Isle City, Avalon, Wildwood and Wildwood Crest and the finally Cape May.
We are staying at a marina call Utsch's Marine Center and will be here until at least Thursday, the 3rd of October. Then it will be off to Chesapeake City, DE and Annapolis, MD. Once we get to Annapolis, we will be there till at least Monday the 7th because I want to attend the US Powerboat show.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
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