New Jersey Museum of Boating

Well we have been back in NJ for just over a week and Barbara just needed to go see something new, and I always find something interesting on these little trips so I enjoy them too. She found a coupon on Entertainment Online (http://www.entertainment.com/save/home) for the New Jersey Museum of Boating (http://www.njmb.org/) so we went on Tuesday. First we where going to have lunch at a Burger King in Point Pleasant (you guessed it she printed a coupon from Entertainment Online). Well we really only got two Whoppers at BK, we brought some veggies, soda and fruit to complete the lunch. After lunch I plugged in the address from the coupon into Hyacinth (our GPS) for the museum and off we went to find it. We had no problem finding the address, but the museum was not in that building. The museum is in building 12 at the Johnson Brothers Boat Works but we where at building 1. We found a door where there was a lady and when we asked her where the museum was she said it was in area but she did not know exactly where; it seems the boat works cover a large area. She did tell us to go back out to one of the main roads and follow it until we see a sign for the library and museum. To make a long story short (too late I know) after driving very carefully around some very large boats in storage (saw some nice sailboats for sale) we found the building the museum is in. We went in to pay but no one was there to take our coupon or money (Barbara had said it might be free). We wondered around and read some of the displays, also found out that they have plans for a larger facility on the bay. After wondering around in the building for about 10 minutes, and taking some pictures, we went back to the car. We where already on the barrier island so we decided to ride down Route 35 to the Tom’s River causeway bridge. All in all it was a pleasant afternoon.