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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I'm typing this from my summer house the next island over in Wildwood Crest.

Cape May is pricey, rent something in the Crest, it's only 5 minutes away.

Do the Wildwoods still have really wide beaches? They were amazingly wide for a while there. Not sure if Sandy increased or decreased that.

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Originally posted by deepocean:

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
I'm typing this from my summer house the next island over in Wildwood Crest.

Cape May is pricey, rent something in the Crest, it's only 5 minutes away.

Do the Wildwoods still have really wide beaches? They were amazingly wide for a while there. Not sure if Sandy increased or decreased that.

Yup! They get bigger every year. Usually 20-28 feet increase each year.

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Originally posted by Cookster:
Wildwood Crest has beautiful beaches! The surf is excellent, water clarity is usually very nice, very little seaweed and luckily, mostly no jelly fish in the water!!

We just returned yesterday from spending a week down there.

I have been taking my family down there for the past 11 years or so, and we stay at a 'old school' style hotel (with all of the rooms now owned privately as 'condos') on E. Monterey Ave, at the very end of the street, beach front. So nice to be able to walk out of your room and be right on the beach!

Ramius - Which B&B does your family own?

Nice! Love the Crest, pretty much grew up here and spent 20 years on the Wildwood Crest Beach Patrol.

Our place is on Heather Road, called the Heather East. Big blue house with flowers all over it. One of the original houses on the island. Stop by!

Graduated from there 49 years ago. Went straight to Governors Island for ET school. Congrats to the new Coastie.

For such a small service seems to be several other coasties on here.

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:

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Originally posted by deepocean:


Do the Wildwoods still have really wide beaches? They were amazingly wide for a while there. Not sure if Sandy increased or decreased that.

Yup! They get bigger every year. Usually 20-28 feet increase each year.

And our beach a short distance up the coast at Ocean City, NJ seems to get shorter and shorter each year.

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Originally posted by PASig:

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Originally posted by RAMIUS:

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Originally posted by deepocean:


Do the Wildwoods still have really wide beaches? They were amazingly wide for a while there. Not sure if Sandy increased or decreased that.

Yup! They get bigger every year. Usually 20-28 feet increase each year.

And our beach a short distance up the coast at Ocean City, NJ seems to get shorter and shorter each year.

Ha! All the NJ beaches get shorter every year and need replenishment except the beaches in Wildwood and Wildwood Crest. I swear the must be the widest beaches in the whole country, if not the world.

The reason our beaches grow every year is due to the Rock Jetty at the southern end of the island.

Sand naturally will flow up and down the coast due to tides and currents, but the jetty acts like a giant catchers mitt catching the sand from the northern beaches and distributing it along our island's beach.

Our house was built in 1905 and used to be one block off the ocean, now our house is 3 blocks off the ocean, plus the giant beach! I used to fish of the ocean fishing pier as a kid, it still stands there, but the water is 100 yards away from the end.

Just found out he hasn't left yet. Graduation will be sometime after the 1st of the year.

Anything open on the beach in January?

I found Cape May a strange place to try and have a before dinner drink or beer. Apparently the town grants ABC licenses based on population, so there are only a few places with a license. It seems that if you are opening a restaurant you can't get a license until some other place closes. In Atlantic City, we were at the Trump hotel on the boardwalk. The only place in the hotel to get a drink was in a bar in the lobby . This was awhile ago, maybe 15 years, perhaps things have changed or someone more familiar with NJ laws can chime in .

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Originally posted by NK402:
I found Cape May a strange place to try and have a before dinner drink or beer. Apparently the town grants ABC licenses based on population, so there are only a few places with a license. It seems that if you are opening a restaurant you can't get a license until some other place closes. In Atlantic City, we were at the Trump hotel on the boardwalk. The only place in the hotel to get a drink was in a bar in the lobby . This was awhile ago, maybe 15 years, perhaps things have changed or someone more familiar with NJ laws can chime in.

Really? One of my favorite things about Cape May is restaurants and bars...lotsa great ones. Never had a problem getting drinks. Same goes for AC, there's literally a bar everywhere, especially in the casinos. Come to think of it, I have no idea what you're talking about.

There are dry towns, Wildwood Crest is one of them, Ocean City is another.

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Originally posted by ulsterman:
Just found out he hasn't left yet. Graduation will be sometime after the 1st of the year.

Anything open on the beach in January?

Cape May is great even in the winter. The town goes all out with Victorian Christmas decor. You probably shouldn't have an issue getting a room anywhere at off season prices.

Semper Paratus!

Best of luck to the soon to be new Coastie.

My friend recently went to his son's graduation. They stayed in the Angel by the Sea Bed & Breakfast and said it was great. I was there from December 1984 to February 1985, Tango-119 Company.