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  1. The Best of Cape May 2009

    Text by CapeMay.com | Published September 1st, 2009 in B&Bs • Beaches • Best of Cape May • Birding and Wildlife • Guest Houses • Hotels • Innkeeping • Leisure • Museums • Outdoors/Water • Restaurants • Tours

    Cyberspace drum roll please as we announce the 2009 winners of the 5th Annual Best of Cape May survey. Every year, winners of the Best of Cape May are determined by online voting. There were 58 categories and awards will be presented to 25 of the winners – many won awards in multiple categories. Voters [...]

  2. Island Surfing

    Text by Bill Godfrey | Published August 1st, 2009 in Beaches • Outdoors/Water

    Trying to describe the impact of surfing on Cape May is like trying to describe the impact of baseball on America – it’s an incredibly broad topic. Many locals have built their lives around surfing, embracing careers that allow them the luxury of ditching work whenever the surf is pumping. For some, surfing defines their lives, chooses their friends for them and shapes the way they see the world. For others it’s a later-in-life hobby that’s now a passion. Anyway you look at it, surfing, even in Cape May, is nothing short of a religion for its most ardent followers.

  3. Which beach is THE beach?

    Text by Bill Godfrey | Published July 1st, 2009 in Beaches

    From Higbee Beach to Poverty Beach, Cape May is a beach-lovers’ paradise. Pick the beach that suits you best and put your best suit on (swimsuit that is). Whether you’re interested in seeing friends, returning to a traditional spot, convenient food and beverage, solitude, or nearby shopping, there’s beach that’s just right for you on Cape Island.

  4. Cape May Beach Replenishment

    Text by Susan Tischler | 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 this is different. Don’t you want to know that St. Mary’s By The Sea Convent [...]

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

    Text by Susan Tischler | 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 get wet when, suddenly, whistles are blowing, lifeguards are running and pulling everyone out of [...]

  6. Resorting in Cape May

    Text by Eric Avedissian | Published August 1st, 2001 in Beaches • Cape May • Leisure

    From 1850 through the early 1900s, Cape May came into its own as a summer resort. In fact, those early tourists didn’t “vacation” in Cape May, says Robert Heinly. “They ‘resorted’.”

  7. Up on the Stand: Who are these people anyway?

    Text by Nancy Carusi | Published August 1st, 1999 in Beaches • Cape May • Lifeguards

    At the peak of the summer season, over 50,000 people visit Cape May and most of them spend some time on the pristine beaches to swim and cool down in the Atlantic Ocean. These bathers in Cape May are carefully protected seven days a week, seven and a half hours a day by the dedicated, professional staff of the Cape May Beach Patrol.

  8. Cape May’s Long-time Guardians

    Text by Robert L. Dean II | Published July 1st, 1999 in Beaches • Cape May • Lifeguards

    Cape May is a town that is proud of its rich heritage. An often ignored but vital part of that heritage belongs to the Cape May Beach Patrol.