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    July 5, 2003

    My plans for Saturday included three (3) places along Cape May's southernmost point where Michael had never been:
      The Cape May--Lewes Ferry
      Sunset Beach
      The Lighthouse at the State Park


    We timed our arrival at the dock to see a ship departing, as that is when the ship makes several turns in the bay. Michael loved the view, especially a sailboat in the harbor.

    Sunset Beach (see our "home" page) is located at the far end of Sunset Boulevard on the bay-side of the island, not far from the Ferry. Just offshore is an experimental concrete ship which sunk. It was dragged to its current location to be used as a wharf for fish. Sunset beach is covered with pebbles which, when tumbled naturally over the millenia or quickly in a rock-tumbler, "diamonds" are exposed. Lance, Michael and Corey collected some of Cape May's diamonds-in-the-rough for the front garden and to "weather" some in a tumbler. While there, a father and daughter were fishing and the daughter caught a stingray.

    Cape May's lighthouse is now inland due to centuries of erosion and rebuilding. Overlooking the beach is a wooden picnic pavillion and just north along the beach is a bunker left-over from WWI.

    The Cove Restaurant in Cape May is located at the southern end of Beach Drive. After lunch there, we met Eric on the beach and spent the afternoon in the sun and water. Later, Corey and Michael went with Eric to his friend's apartment and then out to play skee-ball at the local arcade. Unfortunately, Fudge Kitchen was handing out samples of fudge which "doesn't contain peanuts." It did, and Michael was taken from the promenade by ambulance to Burdette-Tomlin Memorial Hospital on the mainland. Corey called us at our motel and we met them at the ER.

    Michael is, we're all relieved to say, just fine. However, because the EMS "couldn't" give him Epi, he actually asked Corey in the ambulance if he was going to die! Poor kid; he had a rough night in the ER but by morning was back to his old normal "let's get back to the beach" self.


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