Jon Coen

Exactly this week last year, I wrote in Liquid Lines about how summer’s days were numbered and we should all be making the most of them. To quote that column: “Just go surf; doesn’t matter how good the waves are. Then find some kids playing Spike Ball. Challenge them to a game. Go really hard. Make diving plays. Those kids […]

Summer tends to take a familiar pattern year to year on the East Coast. There's a spring chill until June when land and sea come back to life and

The Island seems quiet. Not as quiet as it will be next week, but this weekend was pretty tame compared to the previous 10. On Sunday morning, at prime pickleballing hours, there was an empty court. And at prime beaching hours, there were parking spots open on the beach block! The most hardcore of surfers to the casual beachgoer all […]

As Yoga Bohemia celebrates ten years on LBI, with three yoga studios, the Boutique at Yoga Bohemia and its own yoga school, all on LBI, co-founder Katie Ribsam looks back and remembers that it all started during a family week on LBI. “We rented a house in Beach Haven and I wanted to practice yoga. But there were no studios. […]

Rebecca Gilpin, laboratory researcher and shellfish aquaculture manager at the Rutgers Aquaculture Innovation Center, currently lives between Egg Harbor Township and her family house in Harvey Cedars. But even when she’s in Egg Harbor or at the center in Cape May, her heart belongs to LBI. And she has found some of the most important relationships Rutgers Aquaculture has around […]

On August 21, Surfer ran our initial story on a surfer in Belmar, New Jersey being arrested for apparently not having a beach badge.

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If you woke up in the 609 on Tuesday morning, there was likely a sense of relief. Obviously for those who work every day, it’s reaching the light at the end of a very demanding tunnel. Even for those going back to school, work, etc., it’s still a bit like releasing a valve and just letting out all that pent-up […]

For the first time in over a month, Long Beach Island had a sizeable wave and offshore winds at the same time. Guess we should be grateful for fall weather patterns. All thanks and praise to the Greek goddess of fall Demeter ... or the Roman Autumnus, the Celtic Banbha, the Hindu Prithvi, Glen Danzig, Our Lady of September, Starbucks, Reggie Jackson or whoever else the hell you pray to this time of year.

“Gas is on me. I think we can find simple, cheap accommodation. Camera Batteries are charged. No pros, no hype and a really bad Spotify playlist.”