Monday, June 20, 1994 - Atlantic City, NJ

Went up to the office to pay for last night. The rate here is $1.25 a foot, but they gave us coupons for a free breakfast, so that made it effectively $1 a foot. The breakfast wasn't as good as we remembered it, though.
We had hoped to leave here today, but the wind's blowing 15-20 knots out of the northeast, which would be dead against us, so we decided to wait until tomorrow, when the wind will be 10 knots out of the southwest.
When we were here last winter, we missed seeing the boardwalk, so we walked over there today and were really impressed. It's seven miles long! We walked two or three miles on the boardwalk and then went down to the beach and walked another mile or two. I took off my sandals and waded at the water's edge. Roy had his shoes and socks on, but the waves kept chasing him, so he finally took them off and waded, too. It was an absolutely perfect day. The temperature was in the high 70's or low 80's, and there was a nice breeze to cool things off. The air was very clear, so we could see for miles. We walked past the glitzy casinos and hotels of Atlantic City to the adjacent residential community of Ventnor City.
The boardwalk was first constructed in 1870. I think it was the world's first boardwalk. In 1944, it was half destroyed by a hurricane. Of course, they have to constantly repair it and replace planks.
There were a great many people on the beach and on the boardwalk, but not many in swimming. The water temperature was 60 degrees! I was surprised by the number of lifeguards. There were lifeguard stations every thousand or so feet, and most of the stations had two lifeguards.
Returned to the marina around six and ate supper on the boat. The marina offers free cable TV, so Roy went up to the little store and bought a cable, but when he plugged it in, nothing happened. We didn't know if the problem was in the cable, the television set, or the remote control. After a good deal of experimenting, Roy found that the problem was in the outlet. He tried four different outlets and none of them worked; then he took it over to another outlet and lo! beautiful pictures.