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This is New Jersey hike #1 ("Sandy Hook Loop")
from the book
Take a Hike: New York City (1st edition). We did this on a cold, blustery Wednesday, one day after a foot of snow fell in some parts of
northern New Jersey. It's a delightful hike, which follows the beach for about three miles, including the clothing-optional Gunnison Beach where there
were no nudists on this day. In fact, we only passed one woman walking her dog. The dog was nude but the woman wasn't, which was probably a good idea
given the fact that with the wind chill factor it was about 34 degrees F. After a long beach walk, the hike goes past gun batteries, the oldest operating
lighthouse in America, the historic Fort Hancock, and abandoned Nike missile facilities.
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 Entering at South Beach |
 It was windy!! [photo by Laura] |
 View north |
 View south |
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 Sea bird and sea ship |
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 Sandy Hook visitor's center |
 Fisherman |
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 Breakfast |
 Dead horseshoe crab |
 Starfish on horseshoe crab |
 Starfish [photo by Laura] |
 Washed up stingray |
 Shells |
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 Dunes |
 Fishing Beach |
 Abandoned bunker at Fishing Beach |
 Beach from the bunker |
 Bunker from the beach |
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 Wallenius Wilhelmsen cargo ship |
 Shell filled beach |
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 Those are ours! |
 Manhattan skyline |
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 Another washed up horseshoe crab |
 Verrazano-Narrows bridge |
 Not today! |
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 Low helicopter |
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 First view of lighthouse |
 So many shells |
 Gunnison Beach volleyball nets |
 Closed area for endangered plants |
 Lighthouse and phragmites |
 Gunnison Beach boardwalk |
 Gunnison battery |
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 Gunnison battery |
 Looking inside |
 Anti-aircraft gun |
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 Wetland west of Atlantic Drive |
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 Fort Hancock buildings |
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 Officer's quarters |
 The famous lighthouse |
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 Rails in mortar battery |
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 Anybody home? |
 Inside mortar battery |
 Gate |
 Inside courtyard |
 More rails |
 Lighthouse light |
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 View of officer's quarters |
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 Mall by officer's quarters |
 Sandy Hook Bay |
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 Bike trail |
 Grave of Hamilton Douglas Halyburton |
 Former US Army Nike Radar facility |
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 Winding bike path |
 Close-up of cactus |
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 Nike Ajax missile |
 Path to wildlife blind |
 View from wildlife blind |
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