My favorite observation this week was that of the C.J. Hesse Companies and/or the Ocean County Roads Department digging a 10-foot-deep hole into two lanes of the Ship Bottom Circle on the first week that New Jersey families start summer vacation. That was awesome. Gave me plenty of time, inching northward on the Boulevard to think about what to write about this week in the absence of waves.

With nothing happening in the waters east of LBI, we can talk about how an awful lot of Island folk and surfers went…