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(6/2009) Dave, Jon and I rented a place at Stony Harbor, NJ for a week at the beach!
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(6/2009) Stony Harbor is a beautiful place, but there was a serious dearth of girls this week. The ocean was
a lot warmer than the air, though, so it didn't stop me from bogeyboarding.
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(6/2009) What did stop me from bogeyboarding, however, was the lifeguards, who we referred to lovingly as the
fun police.
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(6/2009) You had to pay $12 for a beach tag just to get out on the beach for a week, which turned out to be unnecessary both for the fact that these were never checked and because no one would actually want to go out between 10AM and 5PM when they were required.
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(6/2009) At any rate, the lifeguards didn't have much to do this week. There was virtually no one in the water all week, so I assumed that it would be all right if I brought out my bogeyboard in a non-bogeyboarding area.
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(6/2009) First I tried swimming in an area without a lifeguard, as the rules instructed us that if we swam in an area without a lifeguard we swam at our own risk. A guy soon came out and yelled at me and told me I could not swim there.
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(6/2009) I politely informed him that if it was all the same to him, I would like to swim at my own risk. He said this was not allowed (contrary to the rules I read), and to go swim by a lifeguard. So I did.
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(6/2009) So I moved up the beach a bit to where a lifeguard was posted, and started bogeyboarding. A minute later
she made me get out of the water. What could the problem possibly be?
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(6/2009) It turns out that bogeyboarding is only allowed at every thirtieth beach (numbered by blocks!), but perhaps she could be persuaded. After all, there was not another soul on the beach within as far as the eye could see.
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(6/2009) No such luck. The lifeguard made me walk 15 blocks to a beach where bogeyboarding was allowed, despite there being no one in sight to care other than her and myself.
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(6/2009) Forget that, I'll wait until 5PM when the fun police get off to swim.
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(6/2009) The moral of the story is, if you go to Stony Harbor, don't waste money on a Beach Pass, and don't bother swimming between 10AM and 5PM. The lifeguards are there to make sure you have no fun.
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(6/2009) The beach really was an ideal place to light paint after dark though, as you can see. These are long exposures where we played with glowsticks and flashlights over the exposure.
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(6/2009) There was also a neat WW2 bunker that had been hauled out of the sea and dumped on the beach near Cape May lighthouse.
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(6/2009) Sadly, the guard must have seen the glimmer in my eye as I walked up to it, and sensed that I intended on climbing in and exploring it. I also couldn't persuade her to look the other way.
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(6/2009) In case you can't tell, the pictures are by now entirely unrelated to what I'm typing.
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(6/2009) At any rate, I'm starting to prefer the Eurpoean countries where I could hand the cops a few bucks and then do whatever I wanted. Come on, I wasn't going to hurt myself in that awesome old bunker. I blame the lawyers.
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(6/2009) In some shots not shown here, I tried tying the glowsticks to strings, tying the strings to my tripod, then throwing the glowsticks into the surf, hoping they'd dance around over the long exposure. Turns out I would have needed to separate the glowsticks by a greater distance so they wouldn't tangle and use a lighter string to pull that off.
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(6/2009) See the light in the distance where the boat was travelling over the 30 second exposure?
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