Cape May was a great stopover. We walked to town about a mile away along the shady streets lined with gingerbread-trimmed Victorian houses. Cape May and its shores are still filled with birds and sea life that helped sustain the Delaware Indians, who had been there for at least 2,800 years before European discovery.
Henry Hudson first made landfall here when his vessel ran aground on one of Cape May's shoals in 1609. Hudson was followed in the mid-1600s by whalers of various nationalities, who scooted off the beach in open boats to spear the right whales that still migrate along this coast today.
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Washington Street Mall in Cape May    |
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