Life in Cape May

A column about Cape May, NJ through the eyes of a year round resident.

Life in Cape May: Season Opener

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Cape May, NJ – Forget the robins, the daffodils, even the first beach goers. For people who know Cape May, nothing says the season has started  as much as a brand new Mercedes on the Washington Street Mall. Every year, Star of the Sea Church holds a six month long raffle for the car. An [...]

Life in Cape May: Spring Fog

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Cape May Point, NJ – You stand on the dune path in Cape May Point State Park and look out to where the ocean is supposed to be. You take it on faith that, somewhere in that massive mist, huge waves are crashing onshore. You just can’t see them. Spring brings many things to Cape [...]

Signs of an Early Spring

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Cape May, NJ – When the chilly west winds stopped blowing this week and Delaware Bay settled into a  placid, deep blue, you just knew spring was on the way. It might seem early to start looking for signs of spring, but then we’ve had an exceptionally warm winter. Record smashing temperatures in some cases. [...]

Cape May Times Pictures of the Year

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Cape May, NJ -  This is our favorite photo of the year. Just two weeks after Hurricane Irene sent all of us packing,  Tropical Storm Lee followed up with massive waves of its own, pounding Poverty Beach.  If one picture is worth a thousand words, this one speaks volumes. The water around Cape May can [...]

Oh Christmas Tree (s)

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Cape May, NJ – When guests visit us in the summer, we send them to the beach.  When they come visiting  in December, we send them to our Christmas trees. Cape May, you see, takes Christmas very seriously. One tree would never be enough. It starts in mid November, when the Mid-Atlantic Center for the [...]

Winter’s Coming

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Cape May, NJ -  You get a glimpse of it on the newly empty streets on a Monday afternoon. There’s a whiff of it in the early wood smoke from a neighbor’s house.  You hear it in conversations about installing back up generators. Winter’s coming. No matter how many festive holiday events are happening right [...]

After Irene

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Cape May, NJ -  Most Cape May residents never experienced the fury of Hurricane Irene. We had to evacuate the island long before the big storm hit. Two weeks later, on September 9, 2011 we got a look at what we might have missed. Tropical Storm Lee sent serious waves crashing onshore all along the [...]

No Blizzard this Year

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Cape May, NJ — On Sunday, February 6, 2011, the sun came out. And so did everyone in Cape May. Exactly a year ago this week, Cape May was being blasted by a record blizzard. That record snowstorm cut off power for days and left four feet of snow behind. We waited for Round Two [...]