Police and other security will be out on the sand making sure people keep 6 feet apart, and lifeguards will blow the whistle on anyone who does not follow the new rules.
“A trip to the beach is a treasured pastime for New Jerseyans on Memorial Day weekend, just as it is for residents in our neighboring states,” Murphy said. “By aligning our social distancing policies for beaches, we can bring some semblance of a ‘new normal’ to our region ahead of the first weekend of the summer season.
”People queue to go to the Long Branch beach on the first day that New Jersey beaches were reopened ahead of the Memorial Day weekend on Friday.Last Saturday in Belmar, dozens of people lined up before dawn on the boardwalk to buy seasonal beach passes after“It just opened the floodgates for everyone to come down and buy seasonal badges,” Belmar Mayor Mark Walsifer. “It’s not that we’re selling more than last year. It just happened all at one time.” While most people tried to social distance, the jam-up of the boardwalk made avoiding contact with passersby difficult.have been suspended until Tuesday. Belmar officials have also removed all the benches from the boardwalk to keep people from congregating and all the bike racks to make more room for pedestrians. But there were still lots of people out and about, ignoring Murphy’s request to wear masks. Stewart Farrell, director of Stockton University’s Coastal Research Center in South Jersey, said Murphy and the governors of the other New England and Mid-Atlantic states appear to be working in tandem and not taking their cues from governors like DeSantis or Brian Kemp in Georgia, who reopened their beaches earlier. “I think they are all talking to each other and certainly not following the lead of Gov. Kemp or the governor of Florida, who seem to be coasting across the lake oblivious to the thunderclaps around them,” Farrell said. The Jersey Shore towns also appear to have decided on a similar “plan of attack.” That includes limiting the number of beach tags sold and “spreading the lifeguards out so each has a fiefdom to watch over rather than being bunched up together in a tower,” Farrell said. Some towns have hired what Farrell called “insta-cops” who will be equipped with badges and radios to reinforce social distancing rules by “eliciting cooperation” from beachgoers. “If they don’t cooperate, they will radio the real police for help,” Farrell said. “They’re going to let family groups sit together. And there’s already some social distancing going on. Nobody sits armpit to elbow unless it’s really packed on the beach. And they’re already making sure that happens by limiting the sale of beach tags.” Similar restrictions on summer fun will be in place up and down the Eastern Seaboard as residents seek relief from weeks of quarantine by hitting the sand and surf.at the beach with a mandatory 12 feet of separation between blankets. In Maryland, Gov. Larry Hogan left it up to the beach towns to decide when to reopen, and tourist mecca Ocean City did so on May 10. But Hogan warned strict social distancing is mandatory., all of which will be open starting Saturday. But there's a catch: Delaware’s mandatory 14-day quarantine for out-of-state visitors and its ban on short-term rentals remains in effect through May 31. So no beach for you unless you’re a local or have already been in the state for two weeks. The Maryland, Delaware and South Jersey beaches are favorite destinations for many Pennsylvanians. That state’s governor, Tom Wolf,this week that he won’t be hitting the sand anytime soon. "I wouldn't go to the beach," Wolf said."There are people there who aren't wearing masks, and you're putting yourself at risk. I wouldn't do that, I haven't done that, and I'm not sure why the governors of Maryland and New Jersey have opened their beaches, but they have." In Virginia, Gov. Ralph Northam gave beach towns the OK to reopen but warned he would reconsider “if people swarm the beaches.”
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