Tom McGee's Blog

Heading down to Virginia for the second stage of vacation, we drove down the Garden State Parkway to Cape May and the ferry that goes down to Lewes, Delaware.

She wasn’t actually a hitchhiker; in fact, we were taking her car.

Parasailers were out on a sunny weekday afternoon:

Cape May Light and the Jersey coastline recede into the distance. The trip is about two hours all together.

Seagulls follow these boats, and are easy to shoot. But we saw dolphins racing ahead, and I couldn’t quite get them:

The ferry was really nice, big and comfortable, with lots of indoor and outdoor seating. We explored most of the ship. At the end, a series of breakwalls with small lighthouses marks the entry to the harbor.

Where you’re met by, of all things, a pirate ship.

From there, we headed south. The “coastal highway” wasn’t anywhere near the coast; in fact, it was just another big commercial strip like Rt. 22 or Brookpark Road. And there was an accident, so we got stuck in high-afternoon heat. Then the forgettable Rehobeth Beach in Delaware: Obviously not disappointing to a lot of people — it was incredibly crowded. And full of ice cream shops, souvenir stands and traffic. Not precisely our kind of place, though we did stop for a Five Guys burger. We split the scene, taking half our fries with us to snack on during the drive down to Chincoteague Island, VA.