Tuesday, May 22, 2012

John had a hard time sleeping from about 4:00 on.  So, he went online and read about two different boats who just did the intracoastal from Cape May on, yesterday and had no problem with the water levels.  This encouraged John and we left Cape May just before 6:00 A.M.  We cruised along as the tide was rising and we stopped at Atlantic City when it became low tide.  We had no problems with the water levels today.  We are docked at the Atlantic City Aquarium and plan on staying 2 nights.  Tomorrow we hope to catch the jitney and go to the Boardwalk.  We are allowed to tour the aquarium for free because we are docked here.

The cruise today was really hazy, but no rain.  So, the 70% won out.  Woo Hoo!  We are really glad that we came this way because the scenery is interesting.  John commented that he felt like he was in Venice, Italy.  There are lots of houses really close to one another along this route and lots of bridges.  Many of the bridges are very low and had to be opened for us to pass through.  The one railroad bridge is only 4 feet off of the water.  We really didn't have much of a wait at any of the bridges.  I am including 3 pictures today.  Hope you like them.

 This is how the water looked at 6:00 A.M. when we left.  Visability was not optimum.

 

See how narrow the water is and how close to the water the houses are built.

 

The houses are sooo close together, but they look cool.  I like that they are different from one another.