Germantown Academy

August 22-25

The No’easter that hit the Jersey Shore in August of 2007 continued to provide cold, rainy, windy conditions for the students from the Germantown Academy Summer Camp. We managed to paddle several miles one day. We explored the continually narrowing channels in the Spizzle Creek area of Island Beach State Park eventually reaching a dead end where several mosquito ditches joined.

The high point of the trip for many of the students was the fishing. We caught plenty of small blue fish. Some pesky six-inch sea bass would steal bait as fast as it could be put on the hook. But the best catch was the twenty one and nineteen-inch fluke that were landed right off the dock. These we ate along with the blues, crabs and clams. In addition, one diner consisted of squid that the kids had dissected several hours earlier.