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Last stop on my Northern NJ adventure was Island beach state park. Hoping to see one of these guys! He didnt let me down, on my way out there he was.... Had quite the photo shoot with him.... Guess here he just got bored with me.

First time I've seen one of these! Had a good day at the north shore on sunday, visited several lakes....

My mother would take us here to look for Cape May diamonds!

Cape May diamonds are actually pieces of quartz washed down, and worn smooth in the process, from the upper Delaware River.[1] Legend has it that the trip is said to take thousands of years.[2] Some more reliable sources have, however, suggested that the pebbles are local in origin, washing out of nearby Pleistocene gravel deposits.[3][4] Cape May diamonds are sometimes incorrectly described as river-smoothed glass discarded by the New Jersey's once-thriving glass manufacturing industry

The scarcity of steel during World War I forced America to build ships out of a counter-intuitive substitute -- concrete. The same stuff that was used to fashion cement overshoes for Mob victims actually floats when it's shaped like a boat.

The S.S. Atlantus was one of a dozen concrete ships that were built, and it criss-crossed the Atlantic several times, hauling cargo and troops. But when steel again became available, the S.S. Atlantus was mothballed.

In 1926 she was docked in Cape May when a storm broke her loose and ran her aground, just off of Sunset Beach. She couldn't be pried off of the bottom because she was made of, well, concrete. For the last 80+ years her slowly crumbling hulk has been a tourist attraction, although not much of her is left to see.