JUNE 20: ATLANTIC CITY

June 20: Cape May is a lovely seaside town with lots of gingerbread cottages, boutiques and restaurants. But as we have visited it before, we decided to take advantage of the good weather predictions for the next few days and press on up the New Jersey Coast.

The New Jersey section of the InterCoastal Waterway is not dredged frequently and is very shallow.  Therefore, most boaters go out into the Atlantic Ocean to cover this section of the Loop.  There are some longer stretches and not that many places to stop so one has to take advantage of any good weather windows.

Our destination today is an anchorage just inside a pond outside of Atlantic City.  This is the same anchorage that we stopped at when we brought the boat back to Rhode Island.  We learnt from other boaters that due to Hurricane Sandy, the entrance has become shoaled and it is much trickier getting into the basin.

One can see the skyline of Atlantic City and its myriad of casinos from quite a distance.

 Approaching Atlantic City.

 A much closer look at the waterfront and casinos.

 One of the newer and more impressive casinos.

A dredger at work trying to undo some of Sandy's damage.

We turned into our anchorage with some trepidation as the channel has really become quite shallow and one cannot follow the existing markers anymore.  We made it through safely and this is the view from our location.