Like almost everyone else living in or close to the city we didn't want to spend the beautiful summer day here. Judging by the traffic jams most people went to one of the beaches along the New Jersey shore, but since neither Ramona nor I are big into spending days in the sun on a beach together with thousands other we went to the Cheesequake State Park. For those wondering why a park is called Cheesequake - according to Wikipedia the name is derived from the Lenape Native American word Cheseh-oh-ke, meaning "upland" or "upland village".The park has a small lake for swimming, lots of picnic and grill areas (seriously considering to buy a bag of coal, some meat and go back there one day to have a BBQ or a "Grillerei" as it would be called in Austria) and four different hiking trails. The trails are very well maintained (which I expected after I paid USD 10 to get into the park) and are mostly running through the forest. Even on a hot and sunny day enough shadow to make walking enjoyable. Didn't take many pictures, the one above shows a painted turtle just a few meters off the path.
I tried to import the GPS log of our walk into Google Maps, let me know if this works or if you can't see the track in the window below...
