rutgersmamma, I hear you on the no boardwalk part…it isn’t for me either but thankfully it is for the people we earn our living from. I grew up on Cape Cod so while I like the area I live in now ( just outside of OC, NJ ) I truly do not understand the way it is so cramped with the houses so close to each other and same for the beach…I like some space.
When our kids were little, we had a motor home and we spent a lot of time in Assateague, Md. That to me is the most beautiful beach on the east coast. We loved the ponies and deer hanging out with us . Though we heeded the warnings to not feed the ponies, we may or may not have hand fed the deer 