Hike #367; Point Pleasant/Mantoloking

 Hike #367 8/30/8

Along the beach in Point Pleasant NJ

8/30/8 Point Pleasant/Mantoloking with Jim "Mr. Buckett" Mathews, "Commando Tom" Petrucci, Jack Lowry, Susan Dawson, David Noble, "Connecticut Joe" Bukowski, and Irina Kulikovskaya.

Point Pleasant Station

Point Pleasant NJ

Point Pleasant NJ

Point Pleasant NJ

Along Manasquan Inlet, Point Pleasant NJ

End of the south jetti of Manasquan Inlet

South jetti of Manasquan Inlet

Beach in Point Pleasant

Beach at Mantoloking NJ

The Jersey Shore at Mantoloking

Mantoloking NJ

Mantoloking NJ

Can't you read the sign?

View from Mantoloking Bridge

View from Mantoloking Bridge

View from Mantoloking Bridge

The Old Mantoloking Bridge was kept in, in part as a new dock.

Mantoloking Bridge

Bay Head vicinity

Bay Head vicinity

Bay Head NJ

The boardwalk in Point Pleasant

Point Pleasant dinner break

A yard of Sea memorabilia in Point Pleasant NJ

A yard of Sea memorabilia in Point Pleasant NJ

This would be the next section in the series of hikes heading south along the Jersey shore. We started where we left off in Point Pleasant and headed south to Mantoloking area.

I think we started a bit further south at the railroad station and headed north to the little Gull Island park where we'd left off on the previous shore hike. We then followed roads out to the Manasquan Inlet. A pathway led around and along the inlet until we were able to get up on the sea wall. We then headed out to the end of the Jetti just like we'd done on the opposite side, but on this side I don't think I went up the tower like we'd done on the other side.

Once on the beach, we simply walked south, and I'm sure we stopped to swim periodically along the way. We continued until we got to the Mantoloking vicinity. We only knew where we were because I asked a lady along the beach which town we were in. We found a public beach access staircase over the sea wall and made our way into town. We walked the street north, and took a side trip to walk across the Mantoloking Bridge. We talked to the guy doing security and lifting the bridge over the intercoastal waterway while we were out there. We then made our way back out to the road and headed north. We were looking for the remains of the abandoned railroad that once went south along the barrier island but we could so no trace of it at all.

Up in Bay Head we could see where the railroad used to continue south across a causeway, as the right of way still goes out onto it for a bit. Now Bay Head is the current ending of the NJ Transit line.

We paralleled the tracks heading back to the north, in part along the ponds and lakes inland.

Near the very end we walked up a road that had a yard full of anchors and sea memorabilia. Very interesting. I think we all stopped to eat somewhere but I forget where it was...