Love to surf fish up and down the beach in October,with by brother,It' such a nice time of year,He's a full timer

Just spent 4 days at LBI and disappointed by the weather. Always went there for the same week for the past 3 years to share a house with my family and always had good weather, but not this year. Guess I was spoiled from the previous years weather. Cut my trip short by a couple of days. It was mostly windy, cold and rain on the day I left. What is going on with the flooding in some areas of the Island? Some business parking lots and streets look like lakes!

Last year I was in LBI twice,July and October...I spent hours walking on the beach collecting shells and beach glass.I hope to be back some day!

Just one week away from being on the Island! Can't wait to feel that special summer feeling that only LBI gives me!

I like to consider myself well traveled. Cruise's and long weekends to the Islands are a staple in my life. I've gotten facials and mud baths at the best spas around. I dine often in 5 star restaurants in N.Y.C.. None of these luxuries remotely compares to the last two week in August on LBI. My favorite place to dine is what I like to call L.B.I'S best kept secret, The Gables.Recently restored, it is more magnificent then ever. Truley worthy of an upper west side address. I Luv LBI.

As always, I am looking forward to my stay in Beach Haven! I can not wait until August 13th when I know I will once again be back to the place I love the most. My husband and I stayed in Wildwood, NJ a few days in July this year. It did not have the spirit and specialness of Long Beach Island. I am not truly on vacation until I reach LBI!

LBI is one of my favorite places. Been going down since I was a kid in the mid 60s. Now our kids are loving it just as much. Favorite spot is Surf City. I think I could live there...

Can't wait to see Surf City this August! Haven't stayed on the island since we owned a home on New Jersy Ave when I was a child. I want to eat, swim and be merry. See you soon!

I have great memories of LBI as a kid growing up in the seventies and eighties. Now I've introduced my fiance to the island, and were making new memories. My father has a house in Loveladies, so I'm able to visit the island a couple of times throughout the summer. The island has changed quite a bit since the 70's, but it still gives you that island feeling.

we love LBI........we just got back from a week long vacation in Beach Haven and already we're planning our next trip to the shore. If only we could stay longer. We dream about owning a place there someday so we can stay all summer. Our kids love it too. It's just a great place to be.

I have been visiting LBI for about 30 years, but I have found the best kept secret on LBI. Lorrys Motel in Holgate. I have never been so impressed as to the warmness,I feel this place is the best kept secret on LBI it is called Lorry's Motel. The owner was always on site and always busy, his gardens on this property were unreal, the location of this property were the best on the Island you are very close to the ocean,bay and wildlife.I tip my hat to this motel and plan on returning year after year.

Spent many summers lifeguarding the beach in Beach Haven Always a great Day on the beach on the 4th Anyone can drop me line at bbywalter@be,,south.net

My dad was an artist, so each summer we trekked to the Foundation to see the latest creative efforts ... shopped at Saltaire Studio, and bought the world's best sticky buns at the bakery in Surf City ! !

Fond memories of listening to WIBG on the 21st St. Beach in Surf City (our friends were from Philly!). And the Lucy Evelyn, and Barny (have pics of 4 different generations of my family w/ Barny!).

July, 2002 was my most recent visit to LBI ... and I can't wait to get back to paradise ! ! We stayed at the Mussel Beach Club, but I took my kids to Surf City to show them the house where my family stayed at 21st & Central when my brother and I were kids. Family friends stayed across the street, so we "owned" the corner the last week of July and first week of August every year!

I have been fortunate enough to spend 30+ years at LBI. It is by far the best beach in NJ. Many memories there. I treasure them always. I am happy my kids are enjoying it now.

Your pictures are great.

I was born on Cedar Bonnet Island 1947 and summered there until 1982 when I moved there permantly until 1996 and I met some great people there, sure do miss the island and the peace during the fall and winter.

Never been to LBI and plan to go on Memorial Day. Hope to become familiar with LBI!

i have been going to LBI for all 18 years of my life and i would not be the person that i am today without it!

I love LBI it is literelly an island away form all of normal life inland.. i have been going there since im 4 yrs old now i am 17 and i love LBI even more now then i did as a baby.... summer 2006 should be fun...

L.B.I. is "THE MOST PRECIOUS" island that I have come to love and adore! My life's dream has been to live out the rest of my life on this fabulous island. But, living only a short drive away has been a God Send for me. If only people could just "APPRECIATE" all the Beauty that God has given us, then maybe they would take pride and care of our oceans. Sun, sand and ocean waters are a great way to destress and rejuvinate the mind, body and spirit! My Island of Pardise!

LBI is the best, chris n pepper love it to

My best memories are the summers I spend on LBI in the late 50's and 60's. Now, finally, many years later, I'm finally going back for a weekend getaway with part of my family. I can't wait and have been searching your website for every little bit of information I can find. I can't wait. Thank you for the wonderful memories LBI.

jumped the shark, thanks for the overdevelopment and ruining a once great place.

Just moved back here after many years..I didn't realize how much I missed it. I spent many years hanging out at manahawkin lake,what used to be the Mermaid,and the beaches all day and night.It's really great to be back!

I have many fond memories of Beach Haven and LBI. My grandmother lived at 6th & Bay in the same place that is now home to Sandy Banks. I returned last year to visit and plan to return again.

Everyone should come to the Shell in Beach Haven this summer! I've been a waitress there for 6 yrs and it's the most fun place to relax and have some food and drinks on the island!

From Allentown, then Catty, now Ohio. Spent every whole summer on LBI till I was 13. What great memories! and our house is still there on E.32nd st, 2 in from Bay ave in Beach Haven Gardens and yes... very near Marvel's!

Cant wait for summer..was home on break this past week from school and last saturday was gorgeous so i had to take a trip to the shore...sat on the beach all day yet was a huge tease...only 1.5 more months till school is done for good

I MISS the beaches at Long Beach Island.
I moved to Vermont 11 years ago after living 50 years in South Jersey. I still long to walk on the beach, see the dunes and waves of the Jersey shore.

Thanks for your web site. Reading the entries brings back so many fond memories of LBI. Please give comments on the forum about the Wharf Rats. I am Timmys little sister and want to hear from you. I will truely miss Marvels Market Donuts. Cant wait to get down there this summer.I worked at Eskils Clog shop in Bay Village.What great times!

Thanks for your web site. Reading the entries brings back so many fond memories of LBI. Please give comments on the forum about the Wharf Rats. I am Timmys little sister and want to hear from you. I will truely miss Marvels Market Donuts. Cant wait to get down there this summer.

First jobs were at The Beach Grill in Barn lgt and at Broadway Pizza.Such fun summers. The 1990's were the best for us growning up down the shore.

Hello! I just found your site and love it!

My two friends from Ireland and I used to visit Beach Haven every summer durng the mid eighties, what a blast, working at Bealls, partying (above) Buckalews with the best people I have ever met.
We love and miss you all.

I love this site looking forward to coming down to LBI in April!!!!

I like Your site! It's very interesting!

I have lived in Vegas now for 9 years, and have been to college overlooking the Cali beaches for four. Nothing I have found quite compares to the years spent as a little girl, venturing to the shore with the ice cream truck, eating water taffey's and most of all just discovering "Fantasy Island"!

I love lbi I have been going there for years, the best time we had was on a charter boat called Bayside Tours that runs out of Holgate Marina, we had an amazing time with them.

L.B.I. The Future Institute for Deep Sea Exploration

We love it here. We have met a lot of nice people and joined the Garden Club, CAP, Senior Center and Museum. And the beaches are the best.

Let the good times roll

I have been going to LBI for 44 years, and it just keeps getting better. My children and now grandchildren love going there too!! We have stayed in many places but for the last 9 years are at a condo in Beach Haven, and it's perfect!! We have friends that go with us and we have the best time! I love talking to people who go there or have gone there for years and remember some of places from the past that are gone, or changed..It's my second home.. hopefully we'll have a place there one day.

i love lbi i want to moved there soon i am for 23 years now

Consider me a lifer. Born in AC. Grew up in Ship Bottom. Grandfather had Esso station in Ship Bottom. His last name is Reitmeier, my mother Anna, used to pump gas, change tires, etc. for him. My father Tom, came from Tacony area in Pa. He worked for Jonny Guild as a mason until he started his own busisness as T Feeney and Son. Both are now deceased. Miss them much. LOVE IT HERE.

36 Years and counting. Been going since I was 3 months old. LOVE LBI. And, YES, sounds funny but, my husband and I went to LBI for our honeymoon. I wouldn't have wanted it any other way!!!!! Now I have my step-daughter HOOKED!!!!!

45 years at LBI and it's still not enough.My mom is a resident,and it kills me to leave.

Your messages create "home sickness." Grew up summers in Ship Bottom; helped parents run miniature golf, arcade, water cycles and water skiing; things from another era. Best friends were summer friends: until we married with "real jobs", worked for my father and enjoyed the water. It's wonderful that LBI is still the place to be. My grandfparents moved there year round in 1948. Golf course they built and apartments they rented-out still exist. They would be thrilled regarding the enthuesiasm for the Island. Maybe I will see one of you next summer after years away from NJ.