Jersey Shore 2013 - Avalon to Long Beach Island

We ended our evening last night with amazing ice cream and started the day today with out of this world cream donuts from Kohler's Bakery in Avalon!  They were so fresh the cream was still a bit warm!  Can you tell we like to eat??

We continued our trip on beach road traveling through Sea Isle City which is another cute, quiet town.  We then stopped in Ocean City, NJ at a farmer's market (can't pass up one of these!).  We got some snacks for later and continued on to Atlantic City.  We thought we would spend the afternoon here, but were maybe here an hour.  I didn't like it at all - very run down.  We walked through the Showboat Casino and out to the boardwalk.  I wanted to see the steel pier where the horses used to jump off a diving board into the water.  Not much to see these days but rides and carnival games.  Needless to say, all I could think about was Sandy, and where we had parked her.  It just didn't seem like a very safe location, so we headed back to her.  The city was just so depressing, I was so glad Sandy was still there and in the same condition we left her!!

 

It was still fairly early, so we drove north to Long Beach Island where we knew we'd be happy!  Doug hasn't seen it in the summer for a long time - we are used to the October crowd.  It was very odd to see the field where the Chowderfest tents are (in October) all empty!  We decided to get some chowda in a bread bowl from Country Kettle - mmmmmm! We perused the town and even got to hear a concert in the park across from Surflight Theater.

 

We had gotten a campsite before going on to Long Beach Island called Baker's Acres.  It was a quiet campground, but very dark and woodsy - so much that we drove Sandy to the bathrooms!  Off to bed for the night!