Wawa is the fuckin shit, I say asbury in the off season, Wildwood for the beach, and Point Pleasant for fuckin Surf Taco holy shit that place is tight.
My childhood beach days were spent making sand castles, at Sandy Hook, until my back burnt and sometimes blistered.
I was never really one to spend time in the water much after I learned how polluted it could be. Think waste and refuse from New York and other urban areas north making their way down to a shore town near you.