I know a couple people got hurt this summer getting hit by a shorebreaking wave here in nj. i was like , how? there has been no waves. I saw this article. http://www.nj1015.com/pages/10603379.php?contentType=4&contentId=8715698
Wow that's cool, the guy mentioned in the article Joe Gomulka was my teacher in high school, way back in the early eighties at Middletown North in NJ. I haven't heard that name for 30 years and plugged it into google, The guy looks exactly the same as he did back then. Proof positive that living near the beach and loving the ocean and everything that goes with it keeps you young. Not sure what to say about the lack of sandbars.
No sandbars in Harvey Cedars right now, because they're all underneath the newly replenished beach. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/08/rough_surf_at_harvey_cedars_be.html
The Incidents that occured this summer in harvey cedars reguarding neck and back injuries occured due to the extreme shelf at the shoreline caused by the drege/refirbish on the Cedars beaches. Waves jack up right in the shorebreak and take down pretty much anything. It could be like 2 foot and ive seen a 200 pound dude get knocked over. Some really sick shorebreak spongeing and bodysurfing this summer if your experinced and aware of the danger. I am a lifeguard in Cedars and am now a Veteran after 5 years, my knowlage of my hometown is extensive. Feel free to ask me anything. In a few years the Sandbars will be back and better then ever, we just need a few Noreasters to clean that **** sand out and send it up to BL. HAve a good one!
Its been 2 weeks today since I broke my 4 ribs and did some damage to my air sacks in my lungs.Talked to my doctor on Friday and she was surprised I didn't have a flail chest from my ribs shattering.i could of been a gonner.I was surfing in the evening so I was sporting a suit.Props goes out to rip Curl for making some good rubber.
that shorebreak in cedars literally ate away most of the beach replenishment already. i remember seeing a beach almost twice as long as those in holgate last year, and now its basically back to where it was before they filled it in. the water just keeps getting closer and closer to that giant dune thing they put in which can't end well. so the town basically created a desert of a beach for a few months, eradicated any sandbars previously there, and left surfers/swimmers with nothing but a huge drop off into the water coming right off the dune walkway. all thanks to the beach front homeowners who are more concerned with their property value than actually having a beach. just another example of how politicians will always listen to that small majority of people who have a little extra cash to give out
Actually it wasn't the beach front home owners. In fact the beach front home owners were the last ones to sign the easements. Having a publicly funded beach fill ment that the beach front home owners would have to provide beach access, parking and bathrooms. The thought of meager peasants walking through their back yard scared them more than loosing their home to the ocean. After all, they can afford to rebuild another home. It was the rest of the home owners behind them who wanted the beach fill, they had more too loose if the dune system were to fail.
