Entering Manasqan Inlet
The Manasqan Inlet from the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk.
The northern end of the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk ends at the Manasquan inlet. The waterway is the northern end of the intercoastal highway. This highway is a route that boaters can use to avoid rougher and potentially dangerous travel on the Atlantic. Incoming boats enter can enter into Barnegat Bay and travel behind Barnegat and Long Beach Island Peninsula. Boats coming out of the inlet that have been navigating the intercoastal highway are generally on their way to points further north. New York, Maine, or other New England ports of call.
It can be fun to sit in Point Pleasant Beach, watching the boats coming and going from the inlet. As you sit there watching them go by you can image a story for each one. That sailboat is heading down to the Caribbean and the one behind it is on its way to Corpus Christi. You can even get some good fuel for your imagination when you are able to read the name and home of the boat. Most have this prominently displayed on the back of their boat. The yacht coming out is coming from the outer banks, for a week of fishing, and is now back to its home in Nantucket. I find doing that much like reading a book, I can travel to a bunch of different places in my mind, while never getting up from my bench in Point Pleasant.
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