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This is Hike #44 ("Higbee Beach") in the book
Hiking New Jersey: A Guide to 50 of the Garden State's Greatest Hiking Adventures (2009). We did this hike right after the previous hike (Cape May Point).
The two trailheads are less than a 10-minute drive apart. I suppose one can hike from one to the other but Bond Creek was at about waist level today, so
doing so would require at least a 5-6 foot wade across (two beach walkers actually did this but they were wearing bathing suits). When we got to Bond Creek, at the
southern tip of this hike, there was at least a half dozen kayakers making their way into Delaware Bay from the creek.
Higbee Beach, just north of the very popular and crowded Sunset Beach, is a bit more remote than most other beaches in and around Cape May, so there are fewer bathers which makes being a mostly-clothed hiker less incongruous, thankfully.
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 Path to ... |
 ... observation deck |
 Ferry stop |
 Laura on platform |
 Cape May canal looking east |
 Fishing |
 View west |
 Ferry to Delaware |
 Boat in canal |
 Path parallels canal |
 Then path heads ... |
 ... to the beach |
 Delaware Bay to left, Cape May canal to right |
 On Higbee Beach |
 [Photo by Laura] |
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 Friendly gull |
 Girl and gull |
 Parasailing |
 Remains of crab |
 Horseshoe crab shell |
 Labrador going after ... |
 ... tennis ball |
 View south |
 Shells and stones on beach |
 Zoom view south |
 Horseshoe crab shell |
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 Boat in Delaware Bay |
 Gulls on beach |
 Ferry to the north |
 S.S. Atlantus off Sunset Beach |
 Ferry and boat |
 Heading south |
 Tour ship passing S.S. Atlantus |
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 Zoom to crowded Sunset Beach |
 Whale watching |
 S.S. Atlantus in distance |
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 Terns |
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 Tern |
 Gull and ferry |
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 Zoom to S.S. Atlantus |
 [Photo by Laura] |
 Kayakers in Bond Creek |
 Bond Creek |
 Delaware Bay |
 Kayakers heading to bay |
 Beachy path |
 Cactus flower |
 Bond Creek looking east |
 Looking west |
 Dragonfly |
 WW II Lookout Tower |
 Cape May lighthouse |
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 S.S. Atlantus |
 Shelled horseshoe crab |
 View north |
 Kayakers in choppy water |
 Having some ... |
 ... fun? |
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 Heading back north |
 Smiley face parasailing |
 Sandy path ... |
 ... back to car |
 Monarch butterfly |
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