Check it out! Long Beach Island is apparently giving birth to a brand spanking new island. It is emerging, baby-like, oceanward of Little Egg Inlet, off Holgate’s far south tip. It’s so adorable – all white, shiny, and ready to grow like the dickens. In fact, at this birth point, the arising island might be the proverbial tip of the iceberg, once ice is conceptually exchanged for sand.

Meet Horseshoe Island, so named in an enthusiastic report from the fine folks at the Conserve Wildlife Foundation of…