With a break in the weather June 3, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden took a bicycle ride along Gordons Pond Trail from Rehoboth Beach to Cape Henlopen State Park. The president wanted to bike to Herring Point to see a memorial bench and plaque placed there to honor his son, Joseph R. “Beau” Biden, who lost his battle with cancer on May 30, 2015. Beau, who served as Delaware attorney general, was also a major in the Delaware Army National Guard.
The Bidens, accompanied by Secret Service agents riding on bikes, stopped to sit on the bench and take in one of the most spectacular views in Delaware overlooking the park and Atlantic Ocean toward the Harbor of Refuge Lighthouse. Before leaving, the president took time to visit with a small crowd waiting for him at Herring Point. He even had a presidential hug for 4-year-old Maya Cassidy of Alexandria. Va.
The Bidens visited their Rehoboth Beach home to celebrate the First Lady’s 70th birthday.
While a U.S. Coast Guard cutter patrolled offshore, nearly 25 members of state and federal law enforcement provided security around Herring Point.
![The Bidens stop to read a plaque placed on a bench overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in memory of Beau Biden.](/sites/capegazette/files/2021/06/field/image/_DSC4306.jpg)
![First Lady Jill Biden and President Joe Biden pause and sit on a bench dedicated to the memory of Beau Biden, the president’s son who lost his battle to cancer on May 30, 2015.](/sites/capegazette/files/2021/06/field/image/_DSC4320.jpg)
![President Joe Biden puts on his bike helmet after pausing at the Beau Biden memorial bench atop the dune at Herring Point.](/sites/capegazette/files/2021/06/field/image/_DSC4385.jpg)
![President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden stop to speak with Maya Cassidy, 4, who is visiting Cape Henlopen State Park with her family from Alexandria, Va.](/sites/capegazette/files/2021/06/field/image/_DSC4405.jpg)
![Just as the Secret Service was ready to head back to Rehoboth Beach from the state park, the president stopped to talk and pose for photographs with a small crowd at Herring Point.](/sites/capegazette/files/2021/06/field/image/_DSC4470.jpg)
![President Joe Biden bikes away from Herring Point back onto the Gordons Pond Trail back to Rehoboth Beach.](/sites/capegazette/files/2021/06/field/image/_DSC4547.jpg)
![A U.S. Coast Guard cutter is on patrol along the shoreline of Cape Henlopen State Park during the president’s brief stay in Rehoboth Beach.](/sites/capegazette/files/2021/06/field/image/_DSC4218.jpg)