Salisbury News

OCEAN CITY, Md. - Families heading to area beaches have more to enjoy than sand and salty water.
 
Ocean City, Md. has the Jolly Roger Theme Park, complete with a farris wheel and roller coaster.
"You hear the sounds of the rides and get caught up in the excitement, but you also can move over to the bay side, walk over to sunset park or some of those very quiet areas and just take in a sunset," says Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan.
 
There are movies on the beach.
 
"Some of us actually remember drive-in movie theaters and watching movies on a bigger screen outside."
 
Ocean City beach movies are on summer Mondays and Fridays at 27th Street. Enormous inflatable screens are erected "and when you're looking at the movies and you can hear the ocean in the background and see the big screen under the stars. It's a great experience for everybody."
 
"I think the parents enjoy it as much as the kids," Meehan says
 
The Delaware beaches also offer lots of options to lying in the sun. There's a big sandcastle contest coming up Aug. 6. There are art galleries and upscale boutiques. Don't forget tax- free shopping.
 
A ferry ride across Delaware Bay takes you to Cape May, N.J., a historic town filled with Victorian mansions. Just off shore, you can see an experimental ship from World War I that's made out of concrete.

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