Tag Archives — "Avalon"

With perfect conditions and a full day ahead of me I was intent on circumnavigating “7 Mile Island” down off the Jersey Shore this past July 4th weekend. What is locally called “7 Mile Island” is a barrier island sitting between Hereford Inlet and Townsend’s Inlet with which the towns of Avalon to the North ...

Saturday September 4, 2010 Courtesy of Hurricane Earl, a mighty wind did blow across the sea this past Labor Day weekend here in the Northeast. The storm passing over a hundred miles east of the coast brought a serious swell to the mid-atlantic region along with very high winds. In fact, the wind was much ...

It’s official. Summer’s here, and not because it is 100 degrees out, but because I got out this past weekend in not one, but two inlets and one large ocean. On Friday I had a long 12 mile round trip paddle through the back bays of Avalon, through Hereford Inlet and out into a very ...

I was back out in Hereford Inlet this past weekend. I put in again at the 54th street boat ramp in Avalon and paddled down to Hereford Inlet. The weather was, as it has been, perfect. Sunny, low humidity, in the 80’s with a nice breeze. I stopped on the Stone Harbor side of the ...

Over the holiday weekend I was able to get in a couple nice paddles. On Friday Zachary and I paddled the back bay of Avalon getting in a nice 2 mile paddle. We would have gone longer but the winds were strong and Zach started getting tired as he fought a pretty tough cross wind. ...