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New Restaurant Establishing at Woodland Beach 

5/14/2013

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Congratulations to Croakers, a new restaurant being developed at Woodland Beach on a former property that overlooks the Delaware River! Still in its clean-up and development stage, its owners have set up a temporary food stand on the beach for the spring and summer crowds. Visit their facebook page to learn more about Croakers and the area: https://www.facebook.com/CroakersWoodlandBeach.

Woodland Beach is a lovely small beach located about eight miles east of Smyrna, Delaware, near the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge that I featured in one of my other posts. From Route 9 in Smyrna, turn onto Route 6 and follow it until you come to the beach. There is a very large parking area adjacent to a freshwater pond which is often filled with waterfowl. A wooden boardwalk provides access to the water for boaters. 

The beach has fine to medium tan sand, and at low tide it is about 30 feet wide from high tide mark to the gently lapping waves. If you enjoy searching for sea glass, or bay glass to be technically correct, this is the place to be. Rockhounders, too, will be overjoyed with this beach because of the unique pummeled rocks and minerals that line the sandy shore. Interested in looking for seashells? Woodland Beach has a variety of shells, too, and many are lined with mollusk secretions similar to mother-of-pearl. Beachcombers can spend the entire afternoon at Woodland Beach and still need to come back the next day to finish scanning their search area. That's how many beautiful shells, rocks and minerals that can be found on this beach! 

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Bowers Beach and South Bowers Beach, Delaware

4/28/2012

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Bowers Beach, and Right Across a Narrow Inlet, South Bowers Beach: Two Beautiful Beaches Accessible to Each Other By a Quick Trip Over Water or a Longer Inland Drive

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Bowers Beach and South Bowers Beach

Bowers Beach on the Delaware Bay has a lovely stretch of white sand, scattered shells, colorful rocks and minerals, and gentle waves. What a great combination for family fun or solitary beachcombing! 

Bowers Beach is located 13.6 miles south of Dover, Delaware, with easy access from Delaware State Route 1S. Quaint summer vacation homes and modern multi-story homes on high pilings intermix along the beach and inland, as well. 

Bowers Beach is often confused with South Bowers Beach which is just an inlet away. Access to the southern beach front is by boat across a narrow inlet that is lined with boat launching sites, charter deep sea fishing services, charter dining tours, and local seafood restaurants. An alternate and much longer route to South Bowers Beach involves returning to Route 1 S and driving seven miles south to a left turn onto Milford Neck Road. From Milford Neck Road, veer left onto Mosley Road which becomes South Bowers Road. Follow South Bowers Road until it ends at the Delaware Bay. 

Both beaches have beautiful white sandy beaches with plenty of rocks and colorful stones to collect, but South Bowers Beach has been recently replenished with an abundance of clean, white sand that stretches seamlessly along the open bay beach, surrounded by lush dune grasses and shrubs. On the day I visited to take pictures for this column, I was the only person on the wide beach for most of the sunny afternoon. It is a rock collectors' paradise as areas of the white sand are overlaid with an amazing variety of minerals and stones. This section of South Bowers Beach is reached by simply following South Bowers Road until it runs into the sand, but if you veer to the left before the sand-covered road, you will drive past a group of bay houses and end up at the marina opposite the marina at Bowers Beach, just across the inlet described above. 

Bowers Beach and South Bowers Beach are two Delaware Bay Beaches worth visiting. By the way, did I tell you that you have to travel past the village of Little Heaven as you travel north or south on Route 1 to get to these beaches?

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Looking South Along Bowers Beach, Delaware
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Sandy Entrance Road to South Bowers Beach, Delaware
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View of the Delaware Bay at Bowers Beach, Delaware
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Looking South Along South Bowers Beach, Delaware
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Looking North Along Bowers Beach, Delaware
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Looking North Along South Bowers Beach, Delaware
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Rocks and Minerals at Bowers Beach, Delaware
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Rocks and Minerals at South Bowers Beach, Delaware
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Pickering Beach, Delaware

3/3/2012

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A Quiet Beach Along the Delaware Bay--Pickering Beach 

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The Approach to Pickering Beach Along Delaware Route 9

Looking for a quick trip to the beach without having to drive to the Atlantic Ocean? Try the beaches along the shore of the Delaware Bay. Last week, I featured Woodland Beach near Smyrna, Delaware. This week I visited Pickering Beach and brought back photos for you. 

Pickering Beach is a small beach town about 8 miles southeast of Dover, the capital of Delaware. Travelling along Delaware State Route 1 S to Dover, take Exit 98 
to State Route 8 toward Downtown Dover. Follow 
Route 8 until you are able to make a slight right onto 
State Route 9. After 2.8 miles, turn left onto Pickering 
Beach Road, and in 1.8 miles you will see a small village 
of beach homes lining the Delaware Bay. 

As you approach the central crossroads in Pickering  Beach, you will see to the left of center a Delaware Public Beach Access sign indicating the allowed path across the protected dunes to the sandy beach. 

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Delaware Public Beach Access Across the Dune at Pickering Beach

Every time I walk across a dune and see the expanse of water on the other side, I am awed by the splendor, beauty, and peacefulness. After six years of walking along the Delaware shore, that feeling has never diminished. 

Pickering Beach is serene, uncrowded, and beautiful. 


 
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Across the Dune at Pickering Beach and Suddenly--The Delaware Bay
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View to the Left of the Entrance to Pickering Beach
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View to the Right of the Entrance to Pickering Beach
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A Multitude of Stones Washed Up on the Beach


Pickering Beach has white sandy beaches and gentle waves that wash up a variety of rocks, minerals, plant life, and sea/bay glass. Rock collectors will enjoy identifying a wide selection of pummeled stones, and beachcombers will find something new on the beach every time they visit.  

To learn more about another Delaware Bay beach, read about Woodland Beach near Smyrna, Delaware:                     www.norenemoskalski.com/norenes-environmental-blog.html 

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Woodland Beach, Delaware

2/25/2012

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Woodland Beach Is On The Delaware Bay East Of Smyrna, Delaware 

PictureWoodland Beach on the Delaware Bay

Woodland Beach is a lovely small beach located about eight miles east of Smyrna, Delaware, near the Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge that I mentioned in my last post. From Route 9 in Smyrna, turn onto Route 6 and follow it until you come to the beach. There is a very large parking area adjacent to a freshwater pond which is often filled with waterfowl. A wooden boardwalk provides access to the water for boaters. 

The beach has fine to medium tan sand, and at low tide it is about 30 feet wide from high tide mark to the gently lapping waves. If you enjoy searching for sea glass, or bay glass to be technically correct, this is the place to be. Rockhounders, too, will be overjoyed with this beach because of the unique pummeled rocks and minerals that line the sandy shore. Interested in looking for seashells? Woodland Beach has a variety of shells, too, and many are lined with mollusk secretions similar to mother-of-pearl. Beachcombers can spend the entire afternoon at Woodland Beach and still need to come back the next day to finish scanning their search area. That's how many beauties of nature that can be found on this beach! 

PictureNew Fishing Pier at Woodland Beach

Woodland Beach also offers great opportunities for fishing and crabbing from its new Fishing Pier. There are also benches on the pier for visitors who prefer to relax and just enjoy the view of the Delaware Bay and the surrounding wetlands. 

The Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) monitors the beach to maintain its natural beauty and to remind people that it is a carry-in, carry-out beach and no littering is allowed. Access to the beach is free and parking is free, as well. 

PictureSea Glass, or Bay Glass, at Woodland Beach




Can you find the piece of sea glass in this photograph from  Woodland Beach?

PictureMore Sea Glass, or Bay Glass, Mixed in With Rocks and Minerals at Woodland Beach





Do you see any sea glass in this second photograph from Woodland Beach? 


PictureBeachcombing at Woodland Beach







What about this picture of Woodland Beach? Can you identify any rocks, minerals, or shells? Try zooming your screen to get a good close-up view, as if you were actually beachcombing on the sunny beach right now. 


As you can see, Woodland Beach is loaded with interesting things for both beachcombers and rockhounders to find. 

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    Dr. Norene Moskalski can often be found walking the beaches of the Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, collecting sea glass, weathered minerals, unusual shells, and artifacts from colonial shipwrecks. A naturalist and environmentalist by nature, and a medical diagnostician by avocation, she has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration and has held administrative and teaching positions at Penn State University and Temple University. She has spent most of her life preparing administrators and teachers to lead and teach ethically with love and respect for everyone. The settings for her novels are authentic vignettes from university campuses and places around the world she has visited. Each novel presents a variation on a theme, using literary techniques and musical innuendos to move the action forward. Her plots revolve around the unexpected: What if the most beautiful things in the world are the most dangerous?

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