The Historic East Point Lighthouse

Hinzugefügt: 2026-05-12

[00:00:04]So, greetings from New Jersey once again on an absolutely beautiful day. It's the first day of May. We're down here in southeast Jersey, not too far from Kate May. We just got done filming over at Thompson's Beach. Absolutely beautiful.

[00:00:16]Amazing place. So much history and nature. But now we're here just close by at the East Point Lighthouse, which is just over there. But even this place is going to be so full of wildlife. Um I will see some ospreys flying overhead.

[00:00:28]Now I know why. because there's a nest right over there and I was having a little snack right by my Jeep there and a and a raccoon just came like running down the road here which kind of unusual for the middle of the day. Maybe we'll see him later. I don't know. But anyway, let's show you around right here and we'll take a look at the lighthouse.

[00:00:45]He's out that way was Thompson's Beach and Kate May is way down that way. But um this was what East Point Road I came down and here's Lighthouse Road. That's just over here.

[00:00:56]Step up here is a is an osprey nest right out there. I'll zoom in on that in a moment. But out there's the Delaware Bay.

[00:01:06]Luckily, there are some people that live out here.

[00:01:10]But then there's some parking here. And right there is the lighthouse. So, we're going to check this whole area out. May give you a little bit of history.

[00:01:19]Check out the wildlife and stuff like that. But yeah, another awesome place.

[00:01:24]But let's zoom in on the nest.

[00:01:27]Let's see what's going on out there.

[00:01:28]It's not terribly far away.

[00:01:37]I think there I think I can see it.

[00:01:39]Yeah, there's some Is that a little fledgling in there? Or an adult maybe?

[00:01:46]Head pops up every now and then.

[00:01:52]Yeah, earlier the adults are flying over. Probably dropped the fish off.

[00:01:56]Yeah, I think you can see the head right there.

[00:02:01]Super cool.

[00:02:04]Yeah, there it is.

[00:02:07]I might hang out here for just a little bit to see if the adults come back.

[00:02:12]Oh, seagulls.

[00:02:17]All right. All right. Well, I guess the adults are out looking for fish, but let's go check out this lighthouse and see what other wildlife is here. I wish I would have got that raccoon on camera, but he was like he was moving pretty fast.

[00:02:30]All right, but here we go.

[00:02:35]The East Point Lighthouse.

[00:02:40]Oh, I just heard an osprey.

[00:02:43]Oh, some doves.

[00:02:45]Here we go. Around the corner here. Breeze picks up.

[00:02:59]There it is.

[00:03:02]The East Point Lighthouse.

[00:03:08]I don't believe it's currently open.

[00:03:12]We'll talk about that a little later.

[00:03:14]But these are kind of cool. Looks like a regular house with the lighthouse sticking up through the top.

[00:03:20]But looks like it has received some attention. Looks like a new roof.

[00:03:29]That's cool.

[00:03:34]Be cool to go inside.

[00:03:36]Yeah. Look over here. We got some He's like Oh, some wild roses. There's a bee in there. He's like way inside there.

[00:03:47]Yeah, they have different names.

[00:03:48]Sometimes they're just called wild roses.

[00:03:51]We got some of these on the farm. I think they're called a rogusa rose and sometimes sometimes called that other names, too. But yeah, but if I remember correctly, they smell amazing.

[00:04:07]Thinking get what? Would I get thorns on her? Oh, yeah. I remember that smell.

[00:04:13]Yeah, I pick some for my mom sometimes on the farm.

[00:04:18]Just another view of it. It's actually really beautiful.

[00:04:24]All right, let's head down to the water, though.

[00:04:28]Should give you a little history of it, though.

[00:04:32]Looks like there's some information boards right here. So, before I go rambling on, let's see what these say.

[00:04:44]Uh oh. Yeah. Constructed in 1849, it is the second oldest lighthouse still standing in New Jersey. Only the Sandy Hook Lighthouse on North Jersey Shore is older.

[00:04:58]Oh, cool. Guards the eastern shore of the Maurice River Cove. This lone sentinel once provide hundreds of Delaware Bay oyster schooners of the guiding light to the ports of Port Norris and Port Elizabeth.

[00:05:10]After nearly a century of service for commercial oyster fishing operations, East Point was deactivated in 1941.

[00:05:17]Local pressure convinced the Coast Guard to reactivate it in 1980, making it the only functioning onshore lighthouse on the Delaware Bay. Yeah, they call it a Cape Cod design. I guess that means cuz it's like in a house.

[00:05:33]It just talked about lighouses in general there. But apparently there's some issues regarding it, some disagreement.

[00:05:42]I think there was a local historical local historical society that was kind of maintaining it, but they've had some disagreements with the with the state about things and that includes like the beach erosion out that's going on out here.

[00:05:57]But anyway, I won't get into that, but there is some disagreements about how things should be handled here. I guess I think that's why it's currently not open either to go inside. All right, but let's head out to the water.

[00:06:08]It's going to be a bit breezy out here.

[00:06:10]You might hear that on the on the camera a little bit, but let's check out some of the wildlife out here.

[00:06:18]Already see some corn ants out there on the pier.

[00:06:27]Yeah. Then there's these things. I think these are supposed to help with erosion to try and stop it. They go all the way along up here.

[00:06:37]Let's zoom in on those corn ants, though.

[00:06:46]All out there chilling out.

[00:06:50]Some turns.

[00:07:00]Yeah, just just talk with those people there. They recognize me. They're actually from Pennsylvania. So even out here in New Jersey, you meet people you or people recognize you. Kind of cool.

[00:07:20]Yeah. Wow.

[00:07:29]Oh, watch him flew off.

[00:07:33]Looks like they're all taking off.

[00:07:42]Yeah, it might be a little bit of wind noise on the camera. Well, the turns stay. I'll zoom in on those.

[00:07:50]They're not as camera shy.

[00:08:11]Heat. Heat.

[00:08:30]The waves are coming in. That breeze is pushing the waves in too.

[00:08:36]Like a little I think the water comes rushing in here.

[00:08:45]Oh, here it comes.

[00:08:48]I didn't quite make it.

[00:08:50]Oh, here. Yeah, there it goes. All right.

[00:08:57]Kind of cool.

[00:09:19]We might get wet.

[00:09:32]Hey, that was fun just letting the camera sit in the rocks, the waves splashing up.

[00:09:55]All right, but I think we're going to take one more last look at the lighthouse and we'll head to another location.

[00:10:18]Yeah, beautiful spot.

[00:10:21]And once again, these are these are here help stop the erosion cuz you know lighouses are too far from the edge here.

[00:10:37]Yeah, just some more beautiful views.

[00:10:38]Oh, those are the people that I met earlier. They actually live, like I said, over in Pennsylvania, but they we meet all the way out here in New Jersey.

[00:10:46]So, that's cool. But yeah.

[00:10:52]All right, that's going to be it for here at the East Point Lighthouse. Just a shorter little video. I wanted to check this spot out. I'm glad I did.

[00:11:01]But now we're going to head to the Heistlerville.

[00:11:07]Well, not yet. Let me zoom in on that bird up there.

[00:11:10]There's a bird way up top there making a want have to get my Merlin app out.

[00:11:23]So the Merlin app is calling that a willlet. Oh, there it goes. But it just took off and it's hovering out there over the marsh area. Probably has a nest out there. I saw I see where it landed.

[00:11:36]Oh, there's two of them. Let me get up this embankment here. See if I can zoom in on them out there. They landed way out there. Out there's that osprey nest again.

[00:11:51]Oh, I don't know if I can find them out there now. All right. I don't think I can see them out there. They're kind of down in the brush now.

[00:11:58]That was cool. It's a Willlet. W I L L E T. A lot of times you see them on on the shore, you know, with the waves and stuff. But anyway, I'm headed to the I think it's called the Heistlerville Wildlife Management Area. I think they have like a wildlife drive you can take with some dirt roads. Actually, the people I met were just there. So the road some of the roads are a little rough, but that's okay. But we'll see what kind of wildlife and some birds we'll see on that drive and maybe we'll head to one other place today. Yeah, we're going to make the most of it. It's a beautiful day.

[00:12:29]Anyway, every Yeah. and it's just awesome. Every time I think I'm going to turn the camera off, I see something else. But that is going to be it for this video, folks. Thanks for coming along. Thanks for watching. Hopefully, we'll see you on the next one. But once again, just as we're getting ready to leave, there's another osprey up there.

[00:12:45]Is he eating a at a fish, I think.

[00:12:49]And we're kind of like staring at his his butt there, but yeah, looks like he's eating something.

[00:13:00]Super cool.