Call it a case of Rumson junior high honor students honoring their environment. The beach is basically their back yard and they’re keeping it clean.
Focus: Forrestdale Honor Students Honor Beach with Clean-Up
Tag Archives: Sandy Hook
In Memoriam: Fair Havenite, NOAA Research Biologist, Author, Clyde MacKenzie Jr., 92
“I have tried to unveil what Teddy Roosevelt said, “No words can unveil the mystery of the wilderness” by conducting numerous field observations, that have included many underwater via scuba, in estuaries/bays and in the Atlantic Ocean.” ~ Clyde MacKenzie Jr.
Fair Havenite Clyde MacKenzie Jr. passed away peacefully on April 29. He was 92.
Continue reading In Memoriam: Fair Havenite, NOAA Research Biologist, Author, Clyde MacKenzie Jr., 92 
Unconscious Man Dies After Attempted Rescue from Ocean on Sandy Hook
An as-of-yet unidentified man has died after being pulled, unconscious, from the ocean at the unguarded Gunnison Beach, also known as the nude beach, on Sandy Hook, National Park Service’s spokesperson Daphne Yun said.
Continue reading Unconscious Man Dies After Attempted Rescue from Ocean on Sandy Hook
Scene Around: COA Beach Sweeps & Ridiculous Finds
It was a shore thing. On Saturday, volunteers hit the beaches from Sandy Hook to Cape May for Clean Ocean Action’s slightly stalled Beach Sweeps.
Continue reading Scene Around: COA Beach Sweeps & Ridiculous Finds
Retro Sandy Hook Lifeguarding Muscle
Photo/courtesy of Joanne Distefano Garelli via Miguel Mejia, Facebook screenshot
Well, it’s been a sizzling summer and everyone’s been diving in … to the ocean for refreshment and, of course, in the name of locals’ tradition. And while everyone’s diving in and swimming with the summer tide, lifeguards are making sure that all make it back to shore.
Continue reading Retro Sandy Hook Lifeguarding Muscle
Retro Rally for the Naked Sandy Hook Truth
Spring is not only in the air again, it’s been downright unofficial summery. The weather since Memorial Day has been beachy; and, there are many more beach days ahead. Years ago, in fact, there were some RFH teens rallying via the classic Rumson “bridge” mode of advertising to get a nude beach going on Sandy Hook. Everyone knows how that went.
Continue reading Retro Rally for the Naked Sandy Hook Truth
Focus: Clean Ocean Action & Inspiring Young Ocean Advocates
It’s all about offering youth a close-up view of their ocean world as inspiration to protect it.
Continue reading Focus: Clean Ocean Action & Inspiring Young Ocean Advocates
Prosecutor: Man Found Guilty of 2020 First Date Sexual Assault at Sandy Hook
A out-of-area 28-year-old man has been convicted on sexual assault charges stemming from the 2020 assault of a woman after their first date on Sandy Hook and is facing up to 20 years in prison, Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey announced on Thursday.
Continue reading Prosecutor: Man Found Guilty of 2020 First Date Sexual Assault at Sandy Hook
Nature Call Focus: Gull’s Eye View
Jonathan, is that you? Getting swooped by a seagull can be a bit Alfred Hitchcockish. You just never know that that bird’s eye view is capturing and processing in the moment. Or who the bird is that one — that Jonathan Livingston Seagull — trying to be a non-conformist.
Continue reading Nature Call Focus: Gull’s Eye View
Scene Around: Dog Daze of Spring Ahead
Photo/Sue Hill-Spakowski
Every dog may just have his day; and that day just may be one that calls for springing into a sun-drenched walk on the beach.
Continue reading Scene Around: Dog Daze of Spring Ahead
Focus: Shore View & Week Ahead FYI
Photos/Elaine Van Develde
The sun before the storm. It has a way of lessening the messy, blistering blow of inclement weather and times.
Continue reading Focus: Shore View & Week Ahead FYIUnmasked: Retro Bridge Nude Beach Plea
With the new pandemic the edict from NJ Gov. Phil Murphy for people to now wear masks otdoors, we’re thinking … it’s pretty interesting to ponder how that may work on the nude beach at Sandy Hook. Bathing suits optional. Masks, not so much … Hey, whatever works and floats your sun bathing and swimming gondola …
There are many more beach days ahead, masked or unmasked. Suits or not There was a time, though, that the clothing optional part was a cause for which a large contingent of RFH nude beachgoers fought — gloves on. In fact, it was taken to the famed Rumson McCarter bridge for a bit of campaigning. Everyone knows how that went.
Continue reading Unmasked: Retro Bridge Nude Beach Plea
You must be logged in to post a comment.