Manasquan Inlet

We moved yesterday from Fairhaven to a place called Glimmer Glass in the Manasquan Inlet. The name tickles me to no end. It was a VERY interesting SHALLOW (we saw 5ft in some places) NARROW (the bridge probably had a 25 foot span) inlet. It was to boaters what a golf course surrounded by houses is to golfers. We literally parked in the front yards of all these boaters. Imagine that we set up a tent in the middle of a golf course. Same thing!
What Could Go Right? We enjoy some fine glamping! For dinner we cooked up some scallops and green beans. Dave got our water maker going yesterday and we need to run through the water a few times before we drink it, so we got long leisurely showers and hot water for our dishes. Our blackout curtains kept out the fully exposed sunshine and we slept in until 7am today (despite the trains and house activity all around us).
What Could Go Wrong? Remember I said SHALLOW. That is super scary to us both - running aground. Many blogs we follow and books we read talk about how dangerously low the NJ ICW (where we are traveling) is. We were so shallow our depth gauge stopped working for a bit and our anchor lodged itself so deeply in the mud we had to use the boat power to pull it out!
My favorite part of the day was not really minding the 3 to 5 foot swells that we experienced on our journey. I thought I would hate that and not be able to sit with Dave up top while he drove, but yesterday I didn't mind. It was nice. I felt like a boater.Read more