wildwood coast guard beach access?

cant u just paddle there?

 

Its not a wildlife refuge area . It use to be that if you walk in empty handed you were fine but with a board or fishing pole you get fine. Since then you can surf there without the hassle of boating in threw the inlet or secret mission to eveade coast guard. But the place is real finiky just like CM and you better off going to the north end of the island

 

can surf there now in the north end it the surfing beach designated in the summer . Its a pretty fun spot .

 

My dad used to surf at the jetty back in the day and so did his friend. We tried to go last year around September/October and were kicked out because we had surfboards. They said if we didn't have boards we were ok, but not ok with them. Now we opt to take my dad's boat out to drop us off. No one bothers us then, at least not yet

Good Luck!

 

i beleive it is a wildlife refuge. i,ve been going there for about 2 years. last summer i went there during a hurricane swell and they wouldnt let me on the beach. i went there another time with my dog and they are VERY strict about not allowing dogs becuase they disturb the habitat, which im fine with. when you drive in the sign actually says NO Surfing but they really dont enforce it. and they do close it IF the piping plovers nest there
and it is extremely dissappointing to hear your veiw on piping plovers. most surfers are very enviromentally conscientious, as we should be. so the government taking action to preserve nature in my eyes is a great thing. if it werent for piping plovers that area would already be like the ****hole town north of it. the entire east coast is so over developed these birds are on the brink of extinction but all you care about is accessability to the surf. typical. there are only a couple places in NJ you can see the dunes in their natural state...to me, they are the states enviromental gems. i like grassy dunes instead of tourist motels and mansoins but thats just me

 

I belive in the state of nj if you go to a beach that requires beach tags they cant keep you from entering the tide line of the water. If you go there to surf , sponge, whatever is fine unitl you deicde to chill on the beach . Stay in the water and you dont need a beach tag

 

Its one mile of beach. I think you can sacrifice one mile out of the hundreds to choose from.

 

I am not arguing that but most beaches in the Summer in Cape May County "require" Beach tags to gain beach access. It dont say anything about acess to the water. If you tread lightly and leave the beach as u found it then all should be good

 

below the high tide line should not be off limits, i agree. but there will always be the a**holes that take advantage. give em an inch and they take a mile. i cant tell you how many times ive seen idiots drive onto the dunes on the south end of brigintine.
i wouldn't call it pristine either, haha thats laughable. its still nj
all coastal states should be as enviromental active as the outer banks, thats what makes that place what it is.
but if you really hate animals and undeveloped coastline with difficult access, just wait...they wont be around too much longer anyway. preservation is not one of the white mans gifts

 

One of my scariest memories of my youth was at this jetty... let's just say it involved a shark...

 

I 'm not so sure about this statement...We have an abundance of national and state parks in America for the sole purpose of preservation.

 

everything below the mean hightide line is federal property. nobody (except military) can do anything about you being there.

 

I was surfing at the wildlife place, I think it's called Trestles? I think this is the one you're all talking about. When I went with a friend there was nobody there enforcing anything and I saw other surfers leaving the beach at the same time. The water is crystal clear and you can tell they dont mess with the sand since the breaks are so perfect. Everything was great until we saw a 6ft+ shark in the water and paddled our asses back to shore. One of the scarier moments of my life, I didnt actually see the thing at first but by friend told me to turn back to the shore and I didnt question him. He said he thought it was a dolphin but then saw its fin and said it was almost jagged, we didnt go back in.

I know there's another place thats basically on the coast guard base that you cant get to unless you have a jetski or something. Apparently it's the best break in South Jersey, but I wouldnt go through the hassle of getting there.

 

Thats all I hear people calling it. It's nothing like the real one and I have no idea how it got it's name, nor do I actually go to the place that often. It's like a 10 minute walk (run) through a mosquito infested 2ft wide dune trail with tons of spike balls on the ground.