WARNING: guide books warn to avoid this inlet because of rogue waves. We carried 6'8, low tide barely coming in out of fuel necessity in almost flat waters. On exit, we saw a large fishing party boat 300 yards out tilt radically. Next, a massive wave while just at the mouth. I slammed on throttle on our 54' ketch as a 30 foot plus lifted us, then dropped us. My biggest fear was slamming the channel bottom but we had managed enough distance to be spared. The dock hands had warned us as we refueled about a disaster with a sportfisherman the previous week killing the owner while riding the fishing tower when hit by a rouge wave, also.

I used to sail through little egg inlet in my 19 ft. open cockpit sailboat . Then would go trolling for blue fish along the LBI beaches. I miss those days.

Forgot to mention pontoons pulling water skiers zigzagging any which way on most summer weekends. First few markers for double creek are about 6 feet wide. 6 inches in the middle of double creek at the wrong time. 3-4 years it took to fix busted markers up and down the waterway. Inside is basically deathrace2000 on the water all Sumer long. But once you bust out the jetty, life is good………..oh and no more windmills.

Barnegat is a lamb compared to Little Egg Inlet on the south end of LBI

I haven't used Barnegat Inlet or Barnegat Bay in many many years but back in the 70s I had a very good friend who died coming into Barnegat Inlet in rough weather. I never really felt that I got the true story of what went wrong that caused his boat to overturn.

I miss the 60’s and Barnegat….