Marmore, NJ – Beach Haven, NJ, June 10, 2008

We left this morning about 8:15. During the rest of our trip to New York there are several areas of very skinny water. (That’s shallow to you landlubbers.) Boats with a draft of greater than 4 feet usually have great difficulty and many must go outside of the barrier islands in the ocean. You try to time your trip to get the benefit of the rising tide.

When we left it was about ½ hour before low tide. Our depth sounder went off several times, we churned brown water once, but we never hit bottom. Our draft is 3’6”, Bob and Margaret’s is about the same, so if we made it they knew they could. On one picture, note how close our boat is to where a bird is standing. We were in the middle of the channel.

When we got to the Margate City Bridge, we discovered the 13’ bridge we needed to open for us was out of service until tomorrow. We had to backtrack about 5 miles and go out the Great Egg Harbor Inlet into the ocean. Luckily it was a calm day and it was actually cooler in the ocean and that was welcomed. We ran until we could get back inside at Absecon Inlet, by Atlantic City. We got some shots of Atlantic City, but some shots were through haze and from quite a distance.

Note the lighthouse. Can you see it in between the tall buildings? The lighthouse is no longer necessary and is now a historical site. The lights from all the casinos are all anyone needs at night!

It was very hot again today. The heat is supposed to break sometime this evening and thunderstorms are forecasted. That will be a relief to us. We are all hoping we don’t have this heat while we are in New York City.

We arrived in our marina at 2:15. We stayed at Beach Haven Yacht Club Marina and they give a special rate to loopers. That’s always nice to find. Margaret and Beth are going to try to win at 500 tonight.