Went on a lake cruise last week. Lake Hopatcong, the largest lake in NJ at 9 miles long and about 800 to one mile wide. It's about 45 minutes from our house. They offer a number of cruises, most are only 2 hours but you get a buffet meal and they have a full bar. We chose the Historic cruise with a tour guide which also had a slide show inside showing all the hotels, restaurants, etc that were once there, in the heyday......pretty interesting. Most of the resorts were wood and burned down.

The lake now has mostly private homes (2200 give or take) and the tour guide said some people pay $120,000 in taxes per year - WHOA!!

Check out these houses.....