Posted on 05/26/2007 5:27:16 AM PDT by Pharmboy
Welcome to the Jersey Shore! Have a great time, but please don't dig too deeply in the sand in Surf City (you could get blown up), feed the seagulls in Ocean City (you could catch a disease), or draw dirty pictures in the sand in Belmar (it's rude).
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"I used to take pictures of signs at the entrance to beaches that had long lists of all the things you couldn't do," said Dery Bennett, head of the American Littoral Society's Sandy Hook chapter. "There was one with a big word `NO' in red letters at the top and all these things listed underneath it, and at the bottom, someone put tape on it and wrote in `fun allowed.'"
Many of the beach towns on Long Beach Island, one of New Jersey's most popular summer vacation spots, have laws prohibiting people from digging deeper than 12 inches in the sand. They stem from an accident several years ago in which a teenager died when a deep hole he was digging collapsed, burying him.
This year, the prohibition is for a different reason: More than 1,000 pieces of unexploded World War I-era military munitions were unwittingly pumped ashore during a winter beach replenishment project decades after being dumped at sea. Authorities say they've removed everything they could, but can't guarantee more munitions don't remain hidden.
"How can you tell a kid not to dig in the sand?" asked Faith O'Dell, who lives near the beach in Surf City, where most of the fuses were found. "It's their nature, it's what kids do. And when your kid says, `Why, Mommy, why can't I dig in the sand?' what do you tell them, that they could blow themselves up?"
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You’re living way in the past. That happened for a couple of years back in the mid to late 80’s during the tom kean administration. It turns out that the culprit was the government of New York City they were ineffective in the way of handling their refuse and storm drainage. Once the state of nj and the feds. found out the source, the problem was solved. NY is the real garbage state and it floated here to nj. The Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988, stopped most ocean dumping. I still prefer some of the beaches in florida: condos are half the price of New Jersey’s, no lifeguards, showers and a hose at each condo to wash off the sand, beach fires, drinking, kite flying all allowed and all for free, no beach fees, no tolls, no ez-pass, no traffic on the parkway.
Route 1 to Route 18 or 287 to Route 18 gets you around EZPass/Tolls.
We put showers and foot baths on our beach.
I bet we bumped into each other a time or two.
I use to hang out at an arcade on 35North in Lavelette.
Um, no arcades when I was there. But did you go to the Seaside Heights boardwalk? A kid’s paradise.
Barnacle Bill’s is where I always took my bike to. That area is a little hazy as to whether it is Lavallette or Seaside Hts.
We have had a house for over 30 years down there.
We put showers and foot baths on our beach. >>
finally. and what’s the daily rate to swim on the beach?
Florida had showers as early as 1970 and probably before that. It’s about time NJ gets with the program. I can’t see how millions pay for and enjoy sand and sticky salt water on themselves all day long.
>>>finally. and what’s the daily rate to swim on the beach?
Ours isn’t a public beach. I’ve never been on the public beaches so I don’t know what the current rate it.
The shower was my first activism. I was 4 or 5 years old when I walked the entire island collecting signatures on a petition to have our club pay for showers to be installed. I also had to get up early for the next 3 to 4 years to go clean up the beach in the morning to help pay for the showers. I had volunteered to do that to try to offset the costs.
“Whenever I think of the Jersey Shore I think of used syringes washing up on the beach.”
I’ve lived here for 30 years. Never knew anyone who saw one of those! In fact, I visit (often) a lovely town and beautiful beach on the Jersey Shore. No complaints!
I have scuba diver friends that always went down there looking for treasure that is part of a wreck. There are gold coins packed in plastic containers.'Gold coins packed in plastic containers'?
From what era in our past?
1970?
“I’ll be going to my childhood stomping grounds, Lavallette, next Thursday.”
I love that town! My daughter lives there, and I’ll be going to my grandson’s baseball game next Thursday. I’m there about once a week....be sure to wave! :)
“Barnacle Bill’s is where I always took my bike to. That area is a little hazy as to whether it is Lavallette or Seaside Hts.”
Barnacle Bill’s is in Ortley Beach, which is the town south of Lavallette.
That was my error. They weren’t packed in plastic containers. They were packed in wax balls. I mistranslated.
The address points to Seaside Heights though.
Okay ... I’m just ‘reading for comprehension’ and that didn’t compute!
OOPS! I was thinking of this one. This one is on 35 North in Ortley. You’re right. I see there’s one in Seaside Heights, also.
http://www.shorebiz.com/barnacle/barnaclebill.htm
I had never seen ‘wax ball’ signed either. I had to get a second translation ;)
How is your back?
They might have opened a second location. Alot of 35 has changed. Lots of old stomping grounds have become condos.
Doing much better; just over-worked, 10 - 12 hrs/day on the ‘job’ six days a week so very little time the last couple yrs to do anything ‘cept survive the ‘job’.
My kids are waiting to leave for the movies. Back later.
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