Eno's Pond, the newest of the Ocean County parks in Lacey Township, is only 28 acres but offers especially good boardwalk trails for exploring coastal habitats. The Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge is one of the major attractions in this region. Located along one of the Atlantic Flyway's most active flight paths, the 43,000-acre refuge is an important link in the network of national wildlife refuges administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In 1986 it was designated a Wetland of International Importance under the Con vention on Wetlands of International Importance. The refuge is about 90 percent tidal salt meadow and marsh, interspersed with shallow coves and bays, all of which provide important resting and feeding habitat for water birds.
Marsh vegetation provides food and cover for many types of wildlife at the refuge.
Bring your binoculars and telephoto lens. For history, the Absecon region offers a U.S. Coast Guard Station in Atlantic City and the Sen. Frank S. Farley State Marina, which was recently refurbished. Be on the lookout for the peripatetic fiddler crabs. For those of us in North Jersey, the Delsea region may be the most unexplored. Just around the bend from Cape May is a whole other region of history, ecology, and activity.