Cape May, at the entry to the Atlantic Ocean where the sea meets the Delaware River, is the stopping off place for most vessels planning to leave the confines and relative safety of the ICW for the open waters of the Atlantic, all the way up the eastern seaboard to New York Harbor.
There is no town dock at the Cape May Harbor, per se, but a free dockage outside the restaurant next to South Jersey Marina. We made the trip into the Marina about 11am, yesterday in order to find a Post Office.
Bad News! My little trusty Canon Elf camera that takes all the photos for the blog, has worms...well no, not worms, but splotches. Worms sounded better than splotches! it does, doesn't it?:)
anyway...
I found the information for returning it to Canon in Irvine, Ca, and read all the instructions, e-mailed them with the complaint, and was told to dispatch it forthwith (I don't think those are the exact words, as Californians don't talk like that) to their service center. Lucky we were within walking distance of a P.O.
Waz ascertained that it was ok for us to leave the dinghy at the Marina dock...and we didn't even have to lock everything up! how cool is that!:)
The marina office was busy, so they kind of assumed, I think, that we were clients. I wasn't about to enlighten them...not immediately, anyway:)
WE asked directions to the P.O. and off we went on shanks' pony. We were going to be offered transport, but declined the kind offer in favor or the exercise and the opportunity to look at all the Cape houses and the Victorian Splendor, on the way. See...this is where I need my camera!! bummer. We didn't find a camera shop....just lots of tourist type shops and enough ice-cream, yoghurt, salt water taffy and Custard cream shops to sink the Bismark, or in this case, to make the entire population obese.
Having mailed the camera back...and no, we didn't take one of the big SLR's with us...too bad!! but the light was shocking and we thought we would have the opportunity to return in the very near future.
The Gingerbread on the Victorian homes is amazing! One of the homes for sale actually had a flyer in a box, outside, so of course we had to have a nosey...$1.35mil.! aieeee..and it needed work!
This was in the center of the 'District' of course, and not far from the Atlantic Ocean Beaches.
In the middle of Cape May Mall, we tried to find food for lunch, at 2.45pm... Most of it looked and sounded unappetizing. We really needed to get back to not eating all the trash that is for sale.
We found a 'better' looking small restaurant down the less busy end of the mall (open air) and sat inside where the air conditioning was just fine, thanks.:)
We ordered: Chicken BLT with fries for Waz, and a Crab Cake Taco with salad for me. We both thoroughly enjoyed our meal...we were pretty hungry by then! Glad we had waited to find somewhere with healthier choices. Waz DOES like his fries, but he will have to give them up, Im afraid!
Having filled our tummies, we went out the back door onto a side street leading down to the water...in this case, the Beach on the Atlantic Side. It just reiterated for us, how close to the Atlantic we actually are. Not much land between the safety of the harbor and the ocean. Not a good Hurricane hole at all!
We walked along the side walk opposite the beach, for a few blocks, observing the humans on the beach, not to mention all the activity on our side of the fence. Plenty of people out on what we would consider a stay at home day.
This is very obviously a resort town, and has been for a couple of hundred years, by the look of all the historic places, around.
Our attention was taken by some gorgeously painted (over painted!) Victorian guest houses, all vying for the title of 'most colorful', in our opinion. Some color schemes worked better than others!
There are obviously painters in the area who specialize in painting all the gingerbread houses.
The gardens are glorious with lots of Peonies...I LOVE peonies!!! almost as much as Roses! They smell divine, and I stopped for whiffs, each opportunity. Roses in full bloom too, and I was a bit overcome with the glory of it all, at one stage. Waz appreciates all this too, I might add, in case you are thinking he just puts up with my whiffing and stopping, all along the way. Such a Renaissance Man!! :)
We took a different route home, of course, and ended up at the marina, around 4pm. What a great walk, that was, but we were craving our cup of tea. We hadn't stopped for coffee, on the way, as we didn't really see any coffee shops that looked like they had what we wanted.
The dinghy ride home was a bit wet...the waves had come up, since we left earlier in the day, and were now quite choppy. I had to hang most of my lower clothes on the line out back, on disembarking the dinghy! I'm hoping people thought my bright pink nickers were shorts!!! really!!
Of course we boiled the kettle for Tea, when we could. Waz stowed the dinghy ready for take off in the morning. He then took a long time trying to find us a new dinghy cover, on the internet, because this one is about to shred. I want to design a floral one, but he doesn't think that would be a great idea! It gets quite dirty!..not sure what the correlation is, but I bow to the captain anyway:) yeh, right!
So, a bit of a mish mash dinner, considering we had eaten so late. Waz opted for a box of Organic Pea and Ham soup with crackers, and I made a large salad with stuff...you know stuff? That stuff! Whatever is left over in the fridge!
We checked the anchor before heading off to bed, and slept like babies until Waz got up for his morning check on the lie of the land...literally...we need to check that we are still where we are meant to be!
Sorry about the lack of photos...Waz is doing research as I write this, into new cameras. There is always a better one!!!
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