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Hello everyone! Welcome to my inaugural beachies blog!
Today is Saturday, May 25th, and I visited Cape May, New Jersey!
Cape May is in a truly stunning region of the country. In order to get there, you have to drive through the Pine Barrens, some of the most beautiful uninhabited protected forest anywhere near the Atlantic coast. It makes it all the more stark of a difference when you exit the Barrens to the views of beautiful lakes and marshes for a good 15 minutes before you get to anywhere with a remotely coastal look and feel. The wide variety of beautiful landscapes in just a short amount of time makes the drive to get there just as fun as the location itself. But of course, the payoff is getting to Cape May itself, a small but beautiful beach town with beaches on every corner of the peninsula.
Let me just start off by saying Cape May is one of the most posh towns in this part of the country. The golf carts to human beings ratio was probably 1:1, I counted at least 3 restaurants with $80 steaks, and all the houses were 3 story manors. If every member of my family pooled together our money we'd probably be able to buy the basement. It definitely made for a beautiful walk to and from the beach though!
A house that probably has more generational wealth attached to it than all the generations in my family combined.
I actually thought this house was really modest and cute. Not sure what's up with the weird roof though lol
That being said, the main street, Beach Avenue, is absolutely gorgeous, with beach entrances every block, a well-maintained, fully concrete promenade instead of a boardwalk, and lots of bars, restaurants, and people walking and being lively. It was really a joy to walk a few miles up and back during the afternoon. I spent a lot of time trying to find a nice place to eat, considering the real estate necessitated Michelin star-level pretentious steak eateries, but ultimately I settled on a pretty cheap and decent sit-down taqueria. Actual Mexican people probably don't eat there very often though, because the spicy pork I ordered had a handful of chili flakes on it at most. Still, I was surprised at only having to pay $10 for it, so I suppose you get what you pay for.
A view of some of the shops on Beach Avenue from the promenade.
The beach that I visited in the morning also had a lot going for it. It was clean, the sand was a really fine powder and didn't get too hot throughout the day, which is really hard to find in my experience. There was a thick fog covering the ocean early in the morning when I got there, and it made for an amazing visual as I was settling in. Once the sun rose some more and it started getting hotter, the fog cleared and all the people came filling in. By the time I left the beach around 3pm, the beach was completely crowded, but not in an overwhelming sense. I was expecting it to be packed, given that it was Memorial Day weekend, but at peak hours on a Saturday afternoon, I still had plenty of space to myself. I'm sure that the beach tags being $10/day didn't help, but I managed to avoid that by arriving before any of the people working set up. I'm not sure how well that will work for others but I'm really glad I managed to avoid the charge! :D
The fog-encompassed beach of the early morning.
DOLPHINS (there were 4 or 5 in a pod here)
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