For most of my life, Seaside Heights was just a 3 mile drive away. Having lived by the boardwalk my whole life, I never understood the big deal about it. As a kid, it was a fun place. As a teen and young adult, it was still a...
We had read about something strange among the dunes near Strathmere, just north of Sea Isle City. While not very large and not necessarily worth the drive from Bayville, it sure is…..different. From the road, it just looks like a high part of the dunes – with a...
2002 Trip / 2004 Trip Friendly reminder – decent amount of pictures. For you folks with dialup… get broadband already. Seriously. It’s 2006, man. This trip easily destroyed the 2 previous trips I took to Sandy Hook. This time around we met up with a few forum members,...
Just offshore of Mystic Island is an island with an abandoned fish factory on it. Some people refer to it as “The Stinkhouse” because of the alleged stench coming from the island. A group of us, including William from It’s New Jersey, rented a small boat and headed...
A few years ago, a friend of mine told me about hotel ruins somewhere on the bay side of Island Beach. He also said a grand piano used to be visible among the wreckage. I forgot about his tale until recently, and I set out to find the...
Originally visited in June 2004 I’ve been wanting to come back to Grassy Sound ever since I first visited because it’s such a unique place. The first thing I noticed this time around was that the boardwalk’s holes had all been repaired; we ended up walking to the...
We saw this along Rt. 30 last year on the way to Lucy the Elephant, but we couldn’t figure out how to get to it. We decided to try again and found a small driveway that leads to it. According to Drive-Ins.com, this particular drive-in was built in...
Along the beach in Barnegat Light you can find this curiosity sticking out of the sand. Supposedly it’s an entire ship that is buried underneath the sand. According to what story you hear, the ship was either a fishing boat or scalloper. Somehow it ended up getting beached...
