June 30, Belmar, NJ

We turn in the rental car and leave Atlantic City mid morning and head north in the ocean.

Cathie and Ron with Atlantic City in the Background

It is cool, with the water temp at 69 degrees, and we run 25 miles to the Barnegat Inlet. We head inside to try the NJ intercoastal waterway for the next 30 miles and find travelling on the weekend in NJ in the intercoastal is very busy with lots of other boat traffic. Capt Ron is our pilot all day and does a great job with all the strange places we go and all the traffic. We touch ground once (Ron and Owen swear we are in the channel) and continue through some beautiful areas to the next inlet, the Manasquan Inlet and the end of the NJ Intercoastal waterway.



We head back out in the ocean for 5 more miles and then into the inlet at Shark River, through two bridges including RR bridge, and the nice town of Belmar. Lots of fishermen in the river in dingys fishing in the middle of the channel. Hard not to run them over. They are fishing for Fluke. Looks like a Flounder. Dinner at a local seafood restaurant.


Next morning we explore Belmar on foot finding a West Marine where we get a replacement CD/radio. Got to have our tunes.
Then we find an Eckerds. Got everything we need.