Rock Lobsters, Governors Island

                                         Off Shore Manhattan Island

                      B52s,        here comes a Sea Robin...

                                   Here comes a Jellyfish

                               Watch out for that Piranha!

                                           Rock Lobsterers

Mother Nature finished the night off with her own light show! Click here  Video Link

We get back on the boat after a shaky night, back to the Big Island

                      

Keyport Flats and Matawan Creek

 

Spongy

Up Stream Matawan Creek

 Spartina

Lots of Mussels here, best I've seen in the bay, so far

Nice algae combo in Chingarora Creek

Live Oyster on Horseshoe Crab shell

Surfs Up at the Cove on Sandy Hook

Mermaids (and Mermen) of Coney Island

 

Fall Day on the Bay

Seaside Goldenrod Great Beds

Cormorants,  Belvedere Beach too many?

                         Representative collection of shells, Pt Comfort

                                       Compton Creek

Old Perth Amboy

        Perth Amboy Bluffs and the new (now gone) Victory Bridge

      Opening ceremony bridge between Perth and South Amboys

            Tottenville Ferry at the foot of Smith Street, Perth Amboy

                          Amboy Docks, Probably early 1900s

Your Blogster with a Bluefin Tuna caught on the Sea Pigeon and Stripers late 60s. Back then there were still big schools of Tuna that swarmed in shore early each  fall. This one was hooked a few miles off Sandy Hook.

Here and There

            

                                                        So Close...

                               and yet so far away.        
  The end of the hook just keeps growing and growing, at the expense of the beaches to the south.

                            Something Fishy on the Shrewsbury

                                      Sand Shark in the surf.

                              Pinocchio Gun Fort Hancock

                                  Peanut Bunker Perth Amboy Marina

Oh Deer

Last year as I was walking at low tide on the bay side of Sandy Hook, I thought I saw a large dog come running directly toward me on this thin stretch of beach, but to my surprise...
Video Link click here:   Weird NJ Animal Behavior

Seaside Storms

      Approaching Thunder Heads, Jersey Shore

 

The Sky is getting very dark!

         The Clouds  seem to be coming right down to the water!

Tropical Storm Ernesto rocks the Great Beds.

                        

 

Scary clouds over NY Harbor.

Wrack Line Sandy Hook

       You never know what you're gonna find in the wrack line.

                                 Sea Deer....Sea Robin?

  Looks like a Bottle Nose Dolphin, several folk have asked if I staged or rearranged this photo, I did not.

                                          Atlantic Sturgeon

                                    Northern Star Gazer

Mouth of the River

Remediation project going on east of the Rt 35 Bridge in Sayreville, Lets hope they do it right.
Parcel A has been preserved for open space.  Specifically, approximately 36.6 acres is preserved for open space, subject to the following:  (1) a Public Access Easement along the waterfront area; (2 ) NRD Conservation Easement, (3) Coastal Wetland Buffer Easement, and (4) Wetland Mitigation Easement.

 

Perth Amboy Waterfront & Raritan Yacht Club

               Great Beds Lighthouse on a Beautiful summer day.

 

These old pilings make great bird roosts.

                Osprey nest on the end pilings, these are  the  young ones,                          their parents have left them to fend on their own.