Saturday, January 31, 2009

Ugly Houses, waterfront edition

UPDATE-Pictures of the sunset from Oyster Creek tonight are at the bottom of the page. I also added a little video from last night.

Yesterday afternoon Mark





and I went out for my first trip on the water this year. Nadya's afloat and chugging along so we went for a little test run down to the Great Egg Inlet, between Longport and Ocean City.





It was a sparklingly beautiful day and we had a bottle of Viognier on board for the trip.





I just might end up spending the end of my working life behind a bar-maybe on St John?



The title of this blog is Ugly Houses-Waterfront Edition (you can find the original blog here)-so let's get to them shall we?



Here is the original ugly house from the street side-the monstrosity that started the whole thing



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and here it is from the water. The ugliness is redeemed somewhat by the windows taking full advantage of the view, but still....





Next victim-the weird shape of this lot is no excuse for the ugliness





Some old-school Ventnor waterfront houses-decidedly not ugly





More old school-you could get lost in this one





New but palatable-the columns on the second floor tip its hand a bit though-





Our little windfarm-actually adds to the scenery





Yes I was piloting the boat-for a bit





Margate Bridge-no EZ Pass accepted LOL





This guy gets a pass for his ugly house with the cruiser at the dock-not too ugly!





Two houses-the one on the left is tolerable-it doesn't try to be all things to all people and it does a decent job with the boat theme, but the one on the right is just ugly





Longport now-more money, bigger shacks-the one on the right is all angles done acceptably-compare it to the ugly on the left





Longport residents' version of a bullhorn-never a dull moment in the murky waters of NJ politics LOL





A little video of the view going under the Dorset Ave bridge (between Ventnor and Ventnor Heights).










Back home again for the sunset





As I write this a thunderstorm is raging right overhead, but the Phillies are playing again so we should have blue skies eventually.


UPDATE-from Oyster Creek tonight





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