NYCkayaker Hoboken New Launch point Re: Watertrail Guide Question....

[William]

Ahhh  ignorance is so bless. Here I was, an innocent
thinking "Wow! A new beach, I think I'll tell others
about it since I never saw any posting regarding the
same" But no! I'm such a noob ...  Thanks Rob for the
reply as well as pictures. Yea it's sad the tree is
gone for shade.  Now IT would be nice if there was a
NJ landing site between this beach and the GW Bridge! 
Will of NJ 
QCC700 


--- rob buchanan <robbuc at aol.com> wrote:

> I think you're talking about the so-called
> maxwell-house beach, named after
> the coffee factory that used to be there. Before you
> write about the place,
> you should take a look at what it used to look like,
> before they whacked
> down the big shade trees and packed the shoreline
> with rip-rap. I'll try to
> post a before and after photo, though I'm not sure
> this list allows that.
> Unbelievable to me that the local and state
> environmental authorities would
> sign off on that kind of 'improvement.'
> 
> Rob
> 
> On 6/9/07 1:30 AM, "William" <haawill at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of Hoboken. There's a new beach landing
> site
> > north around the bend from the pile of rocks in
> > Sinatra PArk that presently is called a launch pt.
> The
> > new little park is not finished yet, but the sand
> is
> > oh so white .... Will write more about it later.
> > Will of NJ
> > QCC700 Rocket 
> 
> 
> 



       
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