Long Beach Island is a world unto itself: all beach, all fun!

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Long Beach Island Offers the Visitor Everything in a True Summer Vacation Spot

Long Beach Island has been attracting vacation visitors from New York, Philadephia and northern New Jersey for more than 100 years. Imagine an 18-mile long island that feels like it is set right in the middle of the ocean. With Barnegat Bay on one side, beautiful sandy beaches and the rolling waves of the Atlantic on the other, that is just how it feels.

Barnegat Lighthouse marks the northern end of LBI, as natives and visitors call it, and visitors to the lighthouse can enjoy a full aerial view of Barnegat Bay, and the ocean, watching the fishing boats ply in and out of the inlet, or the sail boats heading somewhere offshore. The southern end is anchored by a lovely Victorian style village.

Long Beach Island is not a town, but a series of towns located on this barrier island. Barnegat Light, Beach Haven, Harvey Cedars, Long Beach Township (which encompasses seventeen small towns with such beguiling names as Loveladies, Spray Beach and the Dunes), Ship Bottom and Surf City all lie on this lovely stretch of sand like jewels on a beautiful woman's neck.

This island paradise accomodates every visitor with tons of things to do and places to stay. Whether you prefer a B and B, a hotel or motel, one of the adorable inns and guesthouses, or prefer to rent a private home for a week or two, LBI can match you with your dream vacation.

The Beach is the focal point, of course, and the sand and water are picture perfect, but there is plenty else to do on Long Beach Island. There are amusement parks, water sports, bike rentals, boat rentals, golf courses, museums and a beautiful lighthouse to visit, Old Barney.

As befitting any summer community, the choice of eateries is stupendous. Who wants to cook on vacation, right? But the emphasis is heavily on casual food like pizzerias, delis and diners. But there are a few upscale restaurants among the one hundred or so restaurants packed onto this skinny stretch of land.

Sand, sea, sun, lots of things to do and places to eat, separated from the rest of the world by water on both sides of you. LBI is is the truly great vacation town you have always dreamed of.

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