On May 28 we left Chesapeake City early in the morning to catch favorable currents in the Delaware River. The picture of the Salem Nuclear power plant on the NJ side of the river shows the smooth conditions we had for the first part of the trip down to Cape May. The last few hours the wind and waves kicked up some and fog reduced visibility to 1/4 to 1/2 mile.
We filled with diesel at Utsch's Marina before moving to our slip. We walked to the Lobster House for dinner. On Friday May 29, we walked about a mile to the Emlen Physick House, of circa 1872. In the old carriage house was a gift shop and Tea Room that had a nice lunch. We saw a tour trolley let off people at the house so we hopped on and rode to downtown Cape May and purchased tickets for the historical trolley tour. We saw all the old "beach" Victorian houses in old Cape May. We got off the tour back at the Emlen house and walked back to the marina.
On Saturday May 29 we left Utsch's Marina and headed out into the Atlantic Ocean. The waves were not too bad at 1-2 feet but enough to make us both a little sea sick. Conditions were sunny as the picture looking back at the Cape May beach shows. We reached Atlantic City mid afternoon and went in the Absecon inlet to our Rum Point anchorage that was up a narrow canal a few feet from beached pleasure boats. The large "pond" we anchored in had a good view of the Atlantic City hotels and we enjoyed the light show on the Harrah's building at night.
Our next hop around the East Coast of NJ went from Atlantic City to the Barneget Inlet. The light house protects this inlet that can be rough with breakers in certain conditions. We had no problem but the anchorage was near a fishing boat channel and coupled with 20 MPH winds we bounced around some in the evening.
Our last stage of NJ coast was from here with the Statue of Liberty our goal.
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