Local Life, Opinion

Focus: Falling for Sunny Sea Bright Beach Daze

It’s fall. And it’s always time to fall for a little beach walking, lounging, surf fishing or just plain soaking up the sun and Sea Bright scene. It never gets old — not for a forever Rumson-Fair Haven area kid at heart.

Those kids see things, toes burrowed in the familiar sand, eyes darting with the sun beams’ prisms from one view to the other and out over the ocean’s rocking, limitless waves.

Oh, some things are long gone for the older kids, but still there in the meditatively young mind. The view of the iconic Peninsula House, closed up for the season, fronting that New York City skyline backdrop toward Sandy Hook’s history-lapped tip stays like a stubborn ghost on a mission to remind us to exhale. The sight of a closed Donovan’s Reef is still yanks memories out of that young RFH grad vault, to us, the phantom little shack that could and did still somehow rears it’s tattered roof up by the sea wall signaling a “Cheers!” to home and a young heart.

The sand, though, feels the same between the toes. The sun dance on each grain brings the same warmth. The sound of the ocean is still the best of lullabies. Eyes open or closed, the dream is still one that lives in the past and present.

So, the kids dream on and take it all in … (Click on one photo to enlarge and scroll.)

— Photos/Elaine Van Develde for R-FH Retro only

Any time is beach time, but the forecast for this week holds out hope for a few more sunny beach walk, lounge or whatever days. Click here for the forecast from the National Weather Service.