harriet1954
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Sunday Date-Finns Point/Fort Mott, NJ (8/31/08)
Tue, 09/2/08 9:38 AM
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Well, we were sitting in one of my favorite diners about 1:00 PM. We got a late start on Sunday, because one of the hazards of having a second job as a newspaper carrier is the fact that the presses might go down. Well, go down they did, and I didn't get finished my route until 7:45! I'm usually back home in bed by 5:30 or 5:45 AM on a Sunday morning.
It was comforting to go here for breakfast:
White Horse Diner
50 S. White Horse Pike
Berlin, NJ 08009
(856) 753-8863
Our breakfasts were self-explanatory. But I'll add some things at the bottom of the third photo about mine that I didn't like this time.
Oh, before I post the next one, I want to say that they give you a carafe of coffee here. I think I mentioned on another thread that there's nothing worse, for me at least, than having your coffee fixed just the way you like it, and the well-meaning server "tops it off" before you can react. So, having a carafe is a big plus, and besides, you don't have to catch his or her eye to say, "Can I have another coffee?"
His shot of his breakfast is better.
Oh, yes, Brian is definitely a Roadfooder-in-the-making!
I'm not sure why my toast was a bit overdone and my Swiss cheese omelet looked that way (all that white...), but everything tasted A-OK to me anyway.
He got out the map in the parking lot and suggested a drive down to Salem County, which is at the Southwesternmost part of this beautiful Garden State. So that is what we did, and first we stopped, of course, at a lighthouse. It's called Finns Point and it's within the Supawna National Wildlife Refuge and it's now CLOSED which pisses me off NO END. Now we'll have another piece of Americana fading and rusting away because the Federal Government believes this lighthouse is just an unimportant structure. I'm fortunate enough to have climbed this plain-looking (but beautiful nonetheless) lighthouse in 2005.
Finns Point is a Rear Range lighthouse. The Front Range one I believe is demolished, or it's accessible only by boat.
As a point of morbid trivia, the caretaker of the adjoining Finns Point National Cemetery, William Reese, was killed and had his truck stolen by Andrew Cunanan, the murderer of Versace. Remember that?
Anyway! We then drove to Fort Mott, which is extremely historical. Here's a background link, as I'm too tired to type it all out:
http://www.geocities.com/delbayforts/Fort_Mott/
My pictures are not the best, because it was extremely glary day!
I'm not even going to post large pictures of it. Too glary.
But the above is of Harker Battery, which was named after this guy:
A ferry ride on the Three Forts Ferry to Fort Delaware would've been nice (and I absolutely love ferries!), but we'd just missed the last one. We weren't really trying for it. Look at these forbidding signs, though. Kinda turns you off from it.
Man, it's a 15 minute ride across the Delaware River! George Washington would not have been so uptight about his passengers.
The ferry dock was quiet and peaceful, though, and we looked across at Salem Nuclear Power Plant and took a few pictures. The quiet is sometimes just enough for us.
I would like to go back to this former military installation before the weather changes, but it may be too late for ferry service.
By the time we got back to my area, we were hungry again, so we went to the always-reliable Masso's here in neighboring Gibbsboro, and got this delicious mushroom pizza.
I was wondering about the cardboard under the pizza. I never saw that there before. I'm hoping they just slide it onto it to absorb grease. Usually you just see it go right onto the round silver pizza pan.
Anyway, that was our date on the last day of August.
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