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Good friend of mine and coworker is from Ocean Township, NJ. Always bragged about how awesome Jersey beaches are in the summer. Never been to the east coast but New Jersey is where I'd pick for my first visit. I noticed there's a place called Surf City in New Jersey, can you actually surf in the waters out there? Being from the West coast I am totally clueless about the surfing culture in Jersey
Good friend of mine and coworker is from Ocean Township, NJ. Always bragged about how awesome Jersey beaches are in the summer. Never been to the east coast but New Jersey is where I'd pick for my first visit. I noticed there's a place called Surf City in New Jersey, can you actually surf in the waters out there? Being from the West coast I am totally clueless about the surfing culture in Jersey
Surfing culture is big in NJ and NY. You get a lot of surfers at all of the different beach destinations along the NJ coast. Same with NYC and Long Island.
Good friend of mine and coworker is from Ocean Township, NJ. Always bragged about how awesome Jersey beaches are in the summer. Never been to the east coast but New Jersey is where I'd pick for my first visit. I noticed there's a place called Surf City in New Jersey, can you actually surf in the waters out there? Being from the West coast I am totally clueless about the surfing culture in Jersey
Surfing culture is big in NJ and NY. You get a lot of surfers at all of the different beach destinations along the NJ coast. Same with NYC and Long Island.
Huge surfing culture.
(My husband actually moved from Socal to LI for the surfing!!)
*Ship Bottom is just south of Surf City on Long Beach Island.
FWIW, Long Beach Island is generally considered the northern end of the "Philadelphia" part of the Jersey Shore.
It doesn't get quite the traffic the barrier islands to its south get because (a) the freeways from Philadelphia all head to its south and (b) there's only one way onto or off of it — the Route 72 causeway that lands in the middle of the island (at Ship Bottom).
Thus LBI is considered a quieter alternative to the rest of the southern Jersey Shore.
FWIW, Long Beach Island is generally considered the northern end of the "Philadelphia" part of the Jersey Shore.
It doesn't get quite the traffic the barrier islands to its south get because (a) the freeways from Philadelphia all head to its south and (b) there's only one way onto or off of it — the Route 72 causeway that lands in the middle of the island (at Ship Bottom).
Thus LBI is considered a quieter alternative to the rest of the southern Jersey Shore.
It used to be a primary destination decades ago before Rt. 70 became inadequate. In the early 1970s, traffic was stopped so that cows could cross from pasture to barn at Conestoga Rd. Everything east of the Marlton Circle was a breeze.
My family vacationed in Surf City for the first time in 1960. The house was owned by a Philadelphian. Was it more quiet than now? Yes, it was, though I remember standing in line to play miniature golf at Flamingo and any popular restaurant.
(My husband actually moved from Socal to LI for the surfing!!)
Lol, no he didn’t. I remember when you said your nephew was gonna move from Southern California to New York just for the surfing.
No one in the history of the world would make this move specifically for surfing. End of story.
Now if you said something like my husband moved to NYC for work, love (me), etc, and is grateful he can at least surf from time to time I’d believe it.
Lol, no he didn’t. I remember when you said your nephew was gonna move from Southern California to New York just for the surfing.
No one in the history of the world would make this move specifically for surfing. End of story.
Now if you said something like my husband moved to NYC for work, love (me), etc, and is grateful he can at least surf from time to time I’d believe it.
I'll grant that statements like that are hard to believe, but maybe more believable is this:
That person moved from SoCal to Long Island because they like the beaches there better, and a surprisingly strong surf culture helped seal the deal.
Surely you've heard of this famous surf shop, for instance. It's now headquartered in Cocoa Beach, Fla., where its store is the world's largest surf shop, but it was founded in 1959 in Ship Bottom, N.J., on Long Beach Island (part of the "southern" Jersey Shore, which attracts more Philadelphians than New Yorkers). The original Ship Bottom store is still in business, and there's a second location in Ocean City, N.J., "America's Greatest Family Resort."
Google "new jersey surf culture" and you will get lots of links to stories and videos about New York and New Jersey surf culture, including this SURFER video about another legendary surf shop in Sea Isle City (also part of the southern Jersey Shore):
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