One Heck of a Nor Eastah

I couldn't resist taking a ride this evening at High tide to take a look at the beach. I started in Spring Lake and worked my way north thru Belmar. Ocean ave in Spring lake was a real mess. It looked more like it does during a snow storm, except it was all sand. Sand piled up along the roadway and then covering the road itself.

At different spots on the beach, the water was washing up within 75 feet or less to the boardwalk. The boardwalk itself was covered with a few inches of sand in most spots and in others it drifted up to the tops of the benches.

Winds were still blowin super hard and I had to walk backwards most of the time due to the airborne sand particles.

Next time I will bring a baggie to cover my camera, stuffing it inside my coat wasn't working really well.

At Shark River inlet, the seas were even more angry and washing over the jetties and the gulls were having fun picking up and eating the bits of clam and anything else that was being whipped around. The waves were just about hitting the bottom of the Belmar fishing pier and at times as tall as the day markers at the end of the inlet jetty.

There was actually alot of traffic on Ocean ave and quite a few people got out in the wind and gawked at the seas. I wondered if there is going to be anything left of the beach when this blows thru, and then I wondered when I would be able to make it back out on my boat to attack whats left of the striper season. One thing is for sure, the first day the wind switches back to NW, you won't be alone catching bass in the wash.