Tag: New Jersey
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Whale Watching Cruises in Cape May and New Jersey: A Guide
When you get as far north as New Jersey, or more specifically the city of Cape May, whale watching on the East Coast becomes more of a live option. South of New Jersey, there are a couple of scattered whale watching cruises, but most of the states along the East Coast have close to no whale watching cruise opportunities. New Jersey in particular doesn’t have a ton of opportunities, but there are two companies dedicated to whale watching cruises, both of which are in Cape May, and there are also a couple of ocean tours in New Jersey that are like whale watching cruises. A guide to whale watching in New Jersey is largely a guide to whale watching in Cape May, so we’ll focus on the cruises in this city, but we also include details about related cruises as well, one of which isn’t in Cape May. Read more […] -
Cruises from NJ
Cruises from New Jersey – often written “cruises from NJ” for those who can’t be bothered to type a few extra letters – are more precisely cruises from the Cape Liberty Cruise Port, which is located in Bayonne, New Jersey, just across the New York Harbor from Brooklyn. (For those unfamiliar with the geography of this sprawling metropolitan region of the country, Bayonne lines the Eastern side of the harbor.) New Jersey isn’t generally thought of as a cruise departure point – if vacationers think of cruises from the Northern East Coast of the U.S. at all, they generally think of cruises from New York City – but there are in fact a number of cruises that leave from Cape Liberty in New Jersey every year. These cruises from NJ are overwhelming offered by Royal Caribbean International, although Celebrity Cruises offers a few as well. If you are interested in (or just curious about) taking a cruise from New Jersey, keep reading, as all the basics of this port of departure are covered below. Read more […]
