Slept ‘til 7:30 AM, which is really sleeping in for me, but that’s one of the joys of camping; no rush to do anything.
Breakfast was simple: OJ, coffee, and Marvel’s donuts!
Despite what this picture shows, our campsite is not private at all; we are right on a walking path to the camp store, so we get to chat with a lot of passers by. Campers are very friendly and we happily gave several tours of our van before we took off to explore the nearby beach areas that are part of Cape Henlopen State Park.
The closest beach is right on the Atlantic so there are great waves, board and kite surfers, and in the distance plenty of ocean going ships heading to and from the New York and Philadelphia ports.
There are WWII gun placements and observation towers still in place; installed to guard against U-Boats. It’s very reminiscent of those along Normandy Beach in France, and it reminds me of my parents and grandparents stories about how they had blackout curtains on their beachfront home in Beach Haven in order to prevent the Germans from realizing how close they were to the US coast.
Lunch at Matt’s Fish Camp…raw oysters, lump crab meat sandwich, & crabby fries! Delicious!
After lunch we returned to the beach we visited in the morning, but this time we drove right on it. No stickers or fees required. The only requirement is that you possess all the normal off-road equipment and lower the pressure in your tires.
The off road beach was much less crowded than what we experience on Cape Cod. The water was warmer, and there are no sharks so I had a lot of fun in the waves and we were all treated to the acrobatics of a skill kite surfer.
Dinner was so-so. My app, roasted avocado with lump crab was delicious,
but the crab cakes tasted like they came from Sisco, and not blog worthy.
I always wondered where Cape Henlopen was. One of the New London/Orient Point ferries bore that name, so now i know. My mother used to talk about the blackout curtains used right here in Chatham during WW2 for the German uboats.
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