On Saturday, July 28, a friend and frequent adventurer, Barb Spector, and I took a trip down the Maurice River with Captain Dave. This is a relaxing boating adventure that we enjoy several times during the season which runs from late May through October. As senior citizens, we pay $15.
It was bittersweet for me as I gazed at the Maurice River Bluffs where I used to hike the trails with my beloved and now deceased Lab Trixie.
Lots of boaters and picnic folks were on the beaches below the bluffs and swimming and waterskiing on the River.
We passed the usual noteworthy sites such as the last functioning dyke farm in New Jersey, Bercham Farm, the subject of many paintings by area artists, and the eagles and their nests, the ospreys and their nests, and other historic markers for long gone industries.
We lunched as always at Wildflowers Vegan Cafe' outside of which a charming farm market was being held. The Fresh Fest and Farm Market is held 4th Saturdays 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. May, June, July and September 22 (no market in August). For sale were flowers, fruits, vegetables, many honey products, and of course all the little shops in the Glasstown Arts were offering their wares, jewelry, and many other crafts and products.
On the way out, I picked up a copy of SNJ TODAY and saw a listing for viewing the Purple Martin Migration in August aboard the Bonanza II for $40 along with NJ Audubon birders and Alan Jackson, purple martin expert. For reservations contact Citizens United via -
cumauriceriver.org
or
Citizens United
P.O.Box 474
Millville, NJ 08332
or
e-mail
CitizensUnited@CUMauriceRiver.org
Dates are August 9, 10, 11 and 16,17,18, 2018
Boat leaves from Bayshore Center, Bivalve, 2800 High Street, Port Norris, NJ 08349 at 6:15.
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