Meanwhile, school groups begin pouring in for a visit to the Jenkinson's Aquarium. He's been here since the '60s. The kids love him. The young adults love the boardwalk later at night when the bar at Jenkinson's begins to jump with local group Big Orange Cone ripping it up with a set of popular songs. Jenkinson's and Martell's are about it.
Nothing inland rocks.
Which might be true unless you are into a more subdued atmosphere like the Patio Bar at the Wharfside, next door to Jack Baker's Lobster Shanty on Channel Drive, a restaurant whose reputation is nationwide. There are many other restaurants that take advantage of the fresh catch brought to market each day by the local fishing fleet to places like the Point Pleasant Packing Co. on Channel Drive. Holding the whole place together is a high school straight from the Archie comic book days. Point Pleasant Beach High School has less than 375 students, a faculty that knows every one of them and a spirit that makes the place special, according to Alex Karnal, a recent graduate who says he misses the intimacy of the place now that he's at Swarthmore. The beachfront is all privately owned and has been since the town went bankrupt back in 1915 and began sell-ing the rights.