Nor’Easter Slides by Cape May

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Cape May, NJ – For the second time in a week,  Cape May dodged a bullet and was spared the wrath of a powerful storm. Just as our anxiety about  Hurricane Sandy was subsiding, the National Weather Service reported  a new, powerful nor’easter heading our way.  Thankfully, the new storm, named Athena by The Weather Channel,  did not deliver [...]

Waiting for Sandy

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Cape May, NJ – Living in Cape May in the fall is a lesson in watchful waiting. We don’t get hurricanes here every year, although they often give us pause for thought as they storm out of the Gulf or move up the Atlantic Coast, before moving offshore or making landfall farther north. Passing hundreds [...]

Life in Cape May: Back Bay in October

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October turns the marsh grasses to gold in the back bay. The back bay is that slice of water wedged between the mainland and the barrier islands. An unpretentious place with no zip codes. A workaday kind of place. In the summer, good luck navigating the channel with its surge of pleasure boats and tour [...]

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 [...]

Life in Cape May: 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. [...]

Polar Plunge

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Wildwood, NJ – Hundreds of people wearing only bathing suits stood on a chilly Wildwood beach Saturday, waiting for the signal. And they were off.  Running across the beach in 37 degree weather, plunging into a 44 degree winter ocean. Man that was cold. Bystanders were bundled up in parkas, hats and gloves.  Some of [...]

Cape May’s Warm New Year

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Cape May, NJ – Many times, people hope their New Year’s Eve is hot. This year, it definitely was warm.  Before her long  New Year’s Eve night ahead, a Lobster House waitress was enjoying the ocean and the sun in a tee shirt and bare feet Saturday afternoon. A couple from Scranton  came to Cape [...]

Merlins In Winter?

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Photo by Jerry Liguori  Cape May, NJ – As we all know, the weather has been warmer in Cape May this month: green grass, no snow, and a warmer ocean.  Add to that list the two Merlins that were terrorizing blackbirds in the fields along New England Road this week and it seems more like [...]

Dolphin Rescue Attempt

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Del Haven, NJ – A  Pennsylvania family spent Christmas Day trying to rescue a dolphin just north of Cape May  in the Delaware Bay. Larry Macy and his family were on vacation at a home on the bay in Del Haven when they thought they saw a fin go by. The family stopped their holiday [...]

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 [...]