 | NORTHEAST USA 1999-2000 |
| NORTHEAST USA 1999-2000 |
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LONG BEACH ISLAND
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Long Beach Island New Jersey - the Quarter Deck Motel, Ship Bottom, by night
Long Beach Island New Jersey - the Quarter Deck Motel, Ship Bottom
Long Beach Island New Jersey - the Quarter Deck Motel, Ship Bottom
Long Beach Island, Ship Bottom, New Jersey. The Tin Can Man in someone's garden.
Long Beach Island, New Jersey, Ship Bottom. Cedar Bonnet Island and Bridge back to the mainland
Long Beach island New Jersey Ship Bottom Post Office vehicles. If you look closely at these vans, you'll see that they are right hand drive. I've come across this elsewhere
Not many people know this, but the United States Postal Service played a leading role in American nuclear research. Whereas the British under Lord Rutherford spent 25 years and heaven knows how many millions of pounds trying to work out a way of splitting the atom, American scientists simply took an atom and put it in the mail in an envelope marked "fragile".
Long Beach Island New Jersey - the beach between Ship Bottom and Surf City. You have to admit that it's magnificent here.
Just don't go digging in the sand just here, though. You might have a most unpleasant surprise. What with the ban on digging down deeper than 12 inches, and a ban on the use of metal detectors, I suspect that there may well be more discoveries to be made. I remember once a neighbour of mine
It's actually quite ironic that there's a trail of unexploded munitions hanging around a place where I have visited, you know. This kind of thing always seems to happen to me. Perhaps it's significant. Maybe someone is trying to tell me something.
Long Beach Island New Jersey - the beach between Ship Bottom and Surf City
In 2005 I was in a town in South Carolina called Myrtle Beach. One of the reasons was that someone told me that it had the best beach in the entire USA. Well, I already found that difficult to believe, but I had to go to look.
Now compare this beach with the one here. And what do you think? Best beach in the entire USA? It's not even a beach. It's nothing but the son of a beach.
Long Beach island New Jersey - beach between Ship Bottom and Surf City.
"A beach is a place where a man can feel
he's the only soul in the world that's real" sang Roger Daltrey in Quadrophenia.
But I could understand his sentiments - I knew exactly what he had in mind.
Long Beach Island New Jersey - beach between Ship Bottom and Surf City
Long Beach Island - New Jersey beach between Ship Bottom and Surf City
Long Beach Island New Jersey - view from southernmost beach northwards towards Beach Haven Heights
southernmost point of Long Beach Island New Jersey - looking south to Atlantic City in the sunset
southernmost point of Long Beach Island New Jersey looking south to Atlantic City at dusk
Long Beach Island New Jersey Ship Bottom. House illuminated ( that is, lit up) for Christmas
Long Beach Island New Jersey - Barnegat Lighthouse
Massacre at Long Beach Island, New Jersey. The memorial to Andrew Steelman at the Barnegat Light.
Long Beach Island, New Jersey. View from top of Barnegat Light north to mainland. The large building in the distance is, I think, the nuclear power station.
Long Beach Island New Jersey. View from top of Barnegat Light east over the Atlantic Ocean. The artificial breakwater you can see is the umpteeth here at the site. One breakwater constructed about 80 years ago consisted mainly of old scrap cars. I went immediately to fetch a bucket, spade and mechanical digger.
It was just off the coast here that one of the most unusual if not astonishing transport encounters took place. See if you can picture the scene. It's 15th October 1910, 20:00 hours (8pm), dark, and there's a thick Atlantic fog. And here you are in your four-masted schooner the Addison E Bullard whose mainmast is 110 feet. And all of a sudden something huge - enormous - suddenly appears out of the sky heading straight for you. It scrapes your mainmast, you hear voices in the sky, and suddenly the object turns at right angles and veers off into the night.
The Addison E Bullard had just had a close encounter with the airship America, which had earlier that day left Atlantic City in what was probably the first serious attempt to cross the Atlantic by air. It didn't in fact make it, coming down in the Atlantic just 400 miles off the American coast, but nevertheless it was a valiant attempt. Who knows what might have happened had the America not encountered the Addison E Bullard in such a fashion. It clearly unnerved the airship's crew and the commander, Walter Wellman, never flew again.
View from top of the Barnegat Lighthouse south over Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
Long Beach Island New Jersey. View from top of Barnegat Light east over to mainland
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