Surrounded by birch forest, its waters lap a strip of sandy shore.
Around the sandy edge of the shore, the placid faces of moose peer out of the trees.
She has little sympathy for lost views, given what Sandy did to the shore.
Six months after Superstorm Sandy devastated the Jersey shore and New York City and pounded coastal areas of New England, the region is dealing with a slow and frustrating, yet often hopeful, recovery.
Two days into the journey and 19 miles from the starting point, we secured our three boats at the shore and followed a sandy trail up the steep embankment.
The shore is more rocky than sandy, but many restaurants rent umbrella-covered loungers.
The storm destroyed sandy stretches of land along the Jersey shore and gave many on Staten Island their own Katrina moment, with over 100 people confirmed dead (over 1, 000 people died in Hurricane Katrina in 2005) and roughly one million people still without power in the regions of southern Manhattan, the Island and parts of New Jersey.
On the Jersey Shore, still recovering from Superstorm Sandy, winds gusted past 60 mph in some parts.
Nor did he speculate how many more bodies might lie in the sandy scrubland behind the beach on the south shore of Long Island, just east of the New York City border.
As the storm moved up the coast Wednesday night, it brought heavy winds to the Jersey Shore, still reeling from Superstorm Sandy, and had New England residents bracing for a potentially more powerful punch.
Beaches that were washed away are coming back, due both to nature and bulldozers, and real estate agents say demand for this strangest of upcoming summers appears good, particularly in the large portions of the Jersey shore that were relatively unscathed by Sandy.
By some estimates, it may take ten years, and tens of billions of dollars, before hard-hit areas like the Jersey Shore start to resemble their pre-Sandy outlines.
Crews are still sifting a pile of sand dubbed "Mount Sandy" for debris before it can be safely returned to the shore.
Instead of carrying its destructive power further inland, the way superstorm Sandy did in early November, the nor'easter has begun taking its fury off shore, CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers said.
The "Jersey Shore" cast members are all expanding their empires while also giving back to the community that made them famous, via a planned one-hour fund-raiser to rebuild the actual Jersey Shore, which was devastated along with other areas on the East Coast during Hurricane Sandy.
One night after Sandy, I saw footage on the news of a beautiful beach-side house at the Jersey Shore that was leaning over as though its third floor was trying to whisper to the waves.
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Sandy destroyed about 360, 000 homes or apartment units in New Jersey, and some areas along the shore are still devastated.
Superstorm Sandy has already brought the issue to prominence again in New Jersey as the state tries to strengthen the shore against future disasters.
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