Day 118, Friday October 18th

Day 118, Friday October 18th

Today we spend the day exploring Atlantic city.  We dinghy over to the Golden Nugget to catch our jitney to the city centre.  First thing is to walk along the beach.  The Jersey shore has been amazing and Atlantic city also has a beautiful beach.  We cruise along the boardwalk and it is typical of a commercialized beach.  We stop for lunch at Margaritaville and met up with fellow sailors that we had met the evening before, Cathy and Kim from Toronto.  Dawson does some consulting with them to plan for our next days sail.  They also are heading down to Cape May and beyond.


Cathy, Kim and Dawson discussing sail plans

After lunch we continue down the strip.  We have no interest in gambling so just soak up the sun and sights.  The further north we go the strip gets a "carny" feeling to it.  Not as high end as the south part.  A block off the strip and the town is looking very tired.  There is some evidence of previous storms/hurricanes wiping out some prime building property as they sat vacant or with half a building on them.  By 5:00 we had enough and found a starbucks to purchase some coffee beans as we were now using our back up not as good beans.  By 6:00 we were back in the dinghy heading for the boat and able to capture a beautiful full moon over the marsh and some pink skies with the boat in the backgrounds.  Just beautiful.  We called it an early night as we were heading out by 6:30 in the morning which means up at 5:30 or so.....


Cheers

Julie and Dawson