With Memorial Day Weekend mercifully awaiting us at week's end, the Missus and I spent pretty much all of Saturday down at our little Paradise by the Sea, getting the house in shape for the new season. After toiling hard, and boy did I whine about it, at or about 3:30 in the afternoon we walked up to the 17th Avenue Beach to see what we could see on a simply gorgeous spring Saturday.
We saw much that made us smile. The watchword this summer at the Shore is "social distancing" and although it remains to see how well that goes in Belmar once the season opens this weekend, on Saturday afternoon it certainly looked like the people on our beach were honoring it. Sure, there was a considerable number of people out enjoying the sand and the sun but when you looked at them you saw clearly how well individual groups maintained their distance from each other.
Sadly, while Belmar made significant improvements this off-season to the playground on which Maggie (and perhaps this summer Cal as well) plays, which is located adjacent to the Boardwalk on the 16th Avenue Beach, the playground is not open.
It is too early to tell whether it shall open at any point this summer or whether the next time Maggie and Cal are able to use it, their eighteen-month-old little sister, Rylan, will be joining them on it...
...in the summer of 2021.
-AK
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