The common thread of a Jersey Cape vacation is the 30 mile ribbon of clean, white sandy beaches which winds along the cool gentle surf of the Atlantic Ocean and connects the resorts of Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Avalon, Stone Harbor, the Wildwoods, and Cape May. Each of the resort communities of the Jersey Cape offers a wide variety of activities for seashore getaway.
As I was driving to work over the Walt this week, a new digital billboard caught my eye. It had a big photo of the Swings on Mariners Landing in Wildwood, and said something about going to The Jersey Cape for summer vacation.
Now, I grew up in the Philly area, still live here, and spent almost every day of my childhood summers "down the shore" at my grandparent's house in Wildwood Crest. I have never heard of The Jersey Cape.
The next day I saw the billboard again, and saw it list all the South Jersey shore towns: Ocean City, Sea Isle, Avalon, Stone Harbor, Wildwoods, Cape May....
The only thing I could think of was that these southern towns, all part of Cape May County, are trying to push themselves further from the kind of negative connotation that now is associated with the words "Jersey Shore". (though I would have to say, Wildwood doesn't strike me as being much different than Seaside - besides the extra long beaches)
Kids frolicing on the Ocean City, NJ beach from the Flickr of paladinsf
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Snooki getting arrested on the Seaside Beach from TMZ
So tell me, have I been under some kind of rock, or have people always referred to these shore towns as part of the Jersey Cape? In over 30 years, this week was the first time I had ever seen it....
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