Activities

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    Ecotouring the Island

    Text by | Published August 1st, 2008 in Cape May Magazine • Tours

    Sometimes, especially when vacationing with the family, it’s good to try something different.
    Not just your ordinary beach resort, Cape May is also known as a Mecca for nature lovers – birds flying north and south in the shoulder seasons can [...]

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    Collecting Cape May Beach Tags

    Text by | Published May 1st, 2008 in Beaches • Cape May

    Oh, those pesky Cape May beach tags! Everyone complains about them. Some try to wrangle their way out of buying them. Still others go out of their way to buy them early. And then there are those who collect them. Beach [...]

  3. Cape May Beach Replenishment

    Text by | Published February 1st, 2005 in Beaches

    My assignment this month? To update all of you out in cyber space on the Beach Replenishment Project going on. Don’t go away. When have I ever bored you? Well there was that piece on the Phragmite Project – but [...]

  4. Monarch Butterflies in Cape May

    Text by | Published November 1st, 2004 in Birding and Wildlife • Cape May Point

    Consider the Monarch Butterfly. It begins life as a caterpillar living underneath the leaves of the milkweed plant for a couple of weeks. Then, it forms a letter J and hangs out under a sheltered area forming a big [...]

  5. On Assignment: Touring Haunted Cape May

    Text by | Published October 1st, 2004 in Ghosts and Spirits • On Assignment • Tours

    It is dusk and just beginning to cool. A quiet has settled along the beachfront on this Sunday evening in late September. The throngs of tourists have disappeared but there are still a nice number of people walking about. Halloween [...]

  6. Carriage Horses Up Close

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2004 in Cape May • Tours

    Who are those horses riding through Cape May? We see them pulling wedding carriages, pulling tourists through the scenic areas of town, and waiting for passengers on Washington Street across from the Washington Commons shops.
    But who are they?
    Established in 1983 [...]

  7. C.M.B.P. The Anatomy of a Rescue

    Text by | Published August 1st, 2004 in Beaches • Cape May • Lifeguards

    Imagine this.
    It is a quiet, peaceful afternoon at the beach. You are sitting in your beach chair, waiting for the tide to rush over your legs, thinking, maybe you should move your chair back a bit so your stuff doesn’t [...]

  8. On Assignment: Searching for Whales in Cape May

    Text by | Published August 1st, 2004 in Birding and Wildlife • On Assignment • Outdoors/Water

    Call me Ishmael. No, no. Call me S. Tischler.
    Some days ago – never mind how long precisely – having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I might hop a [...]

  9. A Day at the Historic Cold Spring Village

    Text by | Published August 1st, 2004 in Cape May County • Museums

    If you watched the recently aired PBS reality show Colonial House, you learned what life was like for American colonists in the “New World” in 1628. It occurred to our staff at CapeMay.com that we too could see first hand [...]

  10. Training Day

    Text by | Published April 1st, 2004 in Birding and Wildlife

    Don’t bother me, please. I’m in training and I’m very busy.
    After all, the World Series is only a few weeks away. No, not that World Series – the World Series of Birding (WSB). It’s hosted by the New Jersey Audubon [...]

  11. 199 Steps to the Stars: Climbing the Cape May Lighthouse…again

    Text by | Published November 1st, 2003 in Cape May Point • History • Museums • Tours

    And how do I climb thee? Let me count the ways…
    Believe it or not, I found there’s more than one way to approach the Cape May
    Lighthouse, which by the way, celebrated its 145th birthday on Halloween.
    Climbing the Cape May Lighthouse [...]

  12. On Safari…the Cape May Way

    Text by | Published September 1st, 2003 in Birding and Wildlife • Tours

    The other night, I took a sunset Salt Marsh Safari on “The Skimmer,” a 40 ft. pontoon which skims the waterways just like the bird it was named for. Admittedly, I wouldn’t have thought to go on it if I [...]

  13. All Aboard! The train is now leaving the station

    Text by | Published August 1st, 2003 in Leisure • Railroads

    The Cape May Seashore Lines’ train is totally cute… and you should ride it.
    You should take the train in the rain.
    You should take train if you have kids.
    You should take the train if you live here.
    You should take the train [...]

  14. Car-free in Cape May

    Text by | Published August 1st, 2003 in Activities • Tours

    “Car free / Care free” is the motto of a recent map published by the “West Cape May Citizens for Good Government.”
    Published in an effort to encourage visitors and residents to park their cars and leave them parked, the map [...]

  15. Confronting the Past: A Trip to the Historic Cold Spring Village

    Text by | Published July 1st, 2003 in Cape May County • History • Museums

    What do you do with your family on weekends?
    Civil War re-enactors take their families– and the rest of us — back in time.
    Historic Cold Spring Village (HCSV) recently played host to the Confederate re-enactors of Company E, the 17th Virginia [...]

  16. Going Back in Time: Historic Cold Spring Village

    Text by | Published July 1st, 2003 in Cape May County • Museums

    What do you do with your family on weekends? Civil War re-enactors take their families– and the rest of us — back in time.

  17. Cape May Nightlife

    Text by | Published July 1st, 2003 in Cape May • Leisure

    My date and I spent a rainy Saturday night in June hitting some of the bars in Cape May  that we think single people looking for a good time should try out. We were on foot, so we focused our [...]

  18. 27th Annual Hawk Watch

    Text by | Published November 1st, 2002 in Birding and Wildlife

    Some sit patiently waiting. Some stand — their bodies pivot, arms upraised, binoculars in hand. They speak in quiet tones like people waiting for a golfer to hit a crucial shot. It’s easy to tell the serious hawk watchers from [...]

  19. Long Gone but Refusing to Leave: The Ghosts of Cape May

    Text by | Published October 1st, 2002 in Ghosts and Spirits • Tours

    It was a dark and stormy night…. well….it was dark. Desiree, our guide to ghostly apparitions, has already led us up Beach Avenue, along Jackson Street, over to the Washington Street Mall, down Ocean and, now, we stand peering up [...]

  20. Inside Cape May’s Wineries

    Text by | Published October 1st, 2002 in Leisure

    It’s harvest time in Cape May. Not tomatoes, corn or lima beans but grapes. Chardonnays, Sauvignon Blancs, White Rieslings, Merlots. Grapes from which fine wines are made.

    Vineyards are popping up in Cape May County. The look is unmistakable. Rows and [...]