TIME AND TIDES!

  SATURDAY, JUNE 29TH., 2019
            TIME AND TIDES!

     As our family vacation time runs
short we made an extra effort to visit
one of our traditional attractions.
     Sunset Beach near the tip of Cape
May usually draws us in the evening
when there's a special flag lowering
ceremony honoring all veterans.
     This year, however, circumstances
brought us there during the afternoon.
      I've always been fascinated by the
ruins of a concrete ship that was
permanently beached there during a
storm many years ago. It was going
to be intentionally sunk to help
create a channel for the near by Cape
May Ferry but the storm washed it
towards Sunset Beach where it
bottomed out in the sand.
     Each year I've seen it worn away
a little more by the ever present force
of time and tides.
     My little grandson, nearly 4 now,
seems intrigued by its remains and
the story of how the ship, the Atlantis,
ended up just off Sunset Beach.
      As we visited Friday it occurred to
me that someday he may bring his own
\child or grandchild here. I wonder if,
by then. he'll have to depend on old
photographs and tell them what "used
to be" in that water not far off shore.
      Whether there's something to see
or nor I'm hoping he'll tell the story
and keep it alive!
        Hope all your NEWS is good!