Memorial Day is just around the corner
and that means dog owners are beginning to retreat from the sand
at the ultra-popular Jersey Shore as Atlantic beaches close to
dogs for the season.
In the trademark Victorian get-away of
Cape May dogs are banned from most of the town at all times but
our four-legged friends are welcome at Sunset Beach at the southernmost
point on Cape May. Technically the beach is on the Delaware Bay
and not the Atlantic Ocean which explains the break for dogs.
The sands are more brown than white and the waves are quite as
frisky but your dog won't be barking in protest.
Just off the beach are the remains of
the Atlantus, a unique concrete ship built to transport
soldiers in World War I. With steel at a shortage, reinforced
concrete was tried as a
shipbuilding material. The concrete ships worked but proved too
slow and were scrapped after the war. The Atlantus was
towed to Cape May in 1926 to be used as a Ferry slip but an accident
dumped her on a sand bar where she remains today.
From the center of Cape May take Lafayette Avenue to West Perry
Street, which turns into Sunset Boulevard. The two-lane road
deadends after three miles at Sunset Beach.
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