Atlantic City

Catching up here, weather uniformly awful last week. This was news on Saturday June 8.

Did not go outside yesterday (Friday), tropical storm Andrea got in the way. We were holed up in Pecks Creek about halfway between Cape May and Atlantic City.  Safe but nothing much to see from there.
Saturday
Heading towards Atlantic City, need to get 5 bridge openings with various schedules (on the hour, on demand, on  the half etc.)
Made the bridges due to kindness of Albany Avenue bridge tender (opened half an hour early to let me through)

Tonight we are tucked in behind Atlantic City in Absacom Creek A combination of the sublime and the ridiculous, mostly the ridiculous.
Here’s the skyline from a creek on the “Back Bay” side it’s a gamblers Mecca ( why Mecca one may ask, do they gamble there?)

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Then right along the bay, two uses of the environment one good, a lone clam digger harvesting clams at low tide, one not so good , windmills???

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Then the sun goes down over the salt bays

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A good day, only about 50 miles but safe and comfortable.

Headed towards Long Beach tomorrow, weather willing.

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Author: Low Wattage

Expat Welshman, educated (somewhat) in UK, left before it became fashionable to do so. Now a U.S. Citizen, and recent widower, playing with retirement and house remodeling, living in Delaware and rural Maryland (weekends).

9 thoughts on “Atlantic City”

  1. Yes, saw the weather forecast here for the East coast and thought of you!
    There you are, should have stayed home and done your garden. On second thoughts it might have been washed or blown away! So perhaps you are better off where you are. I’m afraid I always found boats are so terribly small when the weather is crap and you can’t get out on top or off, but then I make the same accusation against all means of transport being claustrophobic!
    Each to his own eh?
    Hope the weather improves for you.

    I shall never forget going through a 600′ lock on the Ohio in a 30′ speedboat and we were the only ones in the lock, hideously embarrassing, normally whole barges fit in the thing.

  4. Morning LW, where’s the map? I need the map, can’t find the map, what have you done with the map?

    Good luck with the weather

  6. Precisely, Long Island, Long beach, Long drop, Long John Silver, Long Island tea all mean nothing to me without the map 🙂

  7. Hello Soutie, Map should be back, it got itself trashed somehow, finger trouble on a rocking boat perhaps?

    It will not tell you much, all these places are in New Jersey, Atlantic City is about halfway between Cape May and New York City.

    I’ll try to find a map showing a bit more detail of the NJ ICW (locally known as the navigators nightmare)

  9. The maps back! Thank you LW

    I’m afraid that booklet is far too complicated for the likes of me, your initial map scales it perfectly for me, for example, I have now determined (with the help of a wiki state map) that Atlantic City is more or less at the “Y” in New Jersey and that Toms river is a bit below the “N” in Trenton That allows me to follow your progress quite nicely 😉

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