Day 32- Delaware City, DE to Atlantic City, NJ
Today was the longest day we have had. Ten and a half hours and 90 nautical miles. We pushed it to get as far up New Jersey as we could before the wind moves in tomorrow.
This was taken at 6:05 AM leaving the narrow channel at Delaware City Marina.
The sun had come up at 5:41.
The colors intensified as the morning progressed.
We saw a couple of tugboats and this container ship,
probably heading towards Philadelphia.
I know, another tug and barge but the lighting was perfect when Paul asked for a camera. He was right.
We saw the most commercial traffic moving today, since we started in April.
The Salem Nuclear Power Plant is a two unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located in Lower Alloways Creek Township, in Salem County, New Jersey. It is owned by PSEG Nuclear LLC and Constellation Energy.
The entire PSEG nuclear complex as seen from the Delaware Bay.
Ship John Shoal Lighthouse
This lighthouse has one of the more colorful stories that goes with it. Please click on the blue link to learn more. In the video that follows you can hear the fog horn. While we didn't really have fog, we did have heavy enough cloud cover for the sensor to call for the fog horn. Kind of an eerie sound. Turn your volume up to hear it, before playing the video.
This lighthouse has one of the more colorful stories that goes with it. Please click on the blue link to learn more. In the video that follows you can hear the fog horn. While we didn't really have fog, we did have heavy enough cloud cover for the sensor to call for the fog horn. Kind of an eerie sound. Turn your volume up to hear it, before playing the video.
Miah Maull Shoal Lighthouse derived its strange name from the fact that a man named Nehemiah Maull drowned near the present site in a late 18th century shipwreck.
The sea gulls were sunning themselves on the beach. This was one of the few times the sun poked through the clouds, didn't last long.
The gulls were chasing the goose (Snow Goose, our boat).
Remember all the sailboats at the last marina? Now we are in New Jersey, the home of the sport fisherman and their boats.
The Coast Guard Station, Cape May, is located at the city of Cape May. This is where Coast Guard recruits go to basic training. We happened to come by as they were doing a demonstration.
The original plan for the day was to make Cape May and await the weather. Tim, the owner of the Delaware City Marina gives a detailed weather briefing on the Delaware Bay each evening for the boaters. He allowed as how the weather for this day was going to be the nicest he had seen all season. And he was right. Still, it is recommended to get an early start and try not to get surprised by Mother Nature. With longer days, we were up and about pretty early and chose to sneak out of the dock. With some favorable current and no wind, we were underway and made Cape May by about 12:30PM. The combination of calm weather and plenty of daylight showed that we could press on to Atlantic City and wait there for the forecasted ickier weather to appear. So, that's how a relatively normal day turned into a longer one.
When we left Cape May we were in the Atlantic Ocean. This is the first time we were in open water. It was a bit lumpy, but not bad. The only thing we saw was a lot of gray skies and boats in the distance. About 4 hours later we approached Atlantic City. We will be at the Frank S. Farley State Marina for a few nights. Since the wind is supposed to start blowing tomorrow and we have another 90 miles of open ocean, we will reprovision, rest up and enjoy.
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