On Saturday, June 13, the Navesink and Shrewsbury Rivers hosted Monmouth County’s first parade of lights, a festive procession of boats dressed up in multicolored, bright lights. Families spent the night on their boats with their children and had a pleasant evening barbecue on the lighted river while other boaters invited friends along for the ride and a fun-filled night. Thousands watched from shore.
All boats and boaters were welcome to join, and those who participated “lit up” their boats at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night. Boaters decked out their vessels with string lights and other glowing decorations that casted brilliant, colored reflections onto the water. The boats looked like strings of floating lights in the darkness of the night.
A group of boaters began their journey down the Navesink River and another group cruised up the Shrewsbury River from the Rumson bridge.
They converged soon after on the Shrewsbury River and continued their slow and steady pace around the bend of the river to add to the beauty of the water itself and the sights along the shore in Middletown, Red Bank, Highlands, Rumson and Sea Bright.
– By Heather Nelson
