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Photo Gallery: Barrier Island

From Ortley Beach to Ocean Beach, these communities share bayfront and oceanfront

Ortley Beach. Normandy Beach. Chadwick Beach. Chadwich Island. Ocean Beach.

These are but of few of the communities, sections of town and homeowners associations that make up the barrier Island between Seaside Heights and Mantoloking.

While some are portions of , and others are portions of Brick, still others are a separate town: , for example.

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Each have their active, year-round populations, but come May through September it's "The Season," and renters and snowbirds make these communities are more lively place.

Check out our gallery of this stretch of the barrier island.

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