Holiday Weekend Expectations

[RATS]

I still consider myself a very novice boater, and have not been out on holidays or weekends just trying to become better and safer. With that said it looks like we may be venturing out this weekend and want to know in all honesty how bad it gets out there?
I'm in Sea Bright on the Navesink and was going to be in the river and venture out to the hook bay area. I know a big issue will be my marina is a fueling station and the weekends we stayed docked doing work on the boat and boozing it up that area got hairy and it was not a holiday.
Fire away tell me what to avoid besides being in a boat for the holiday lol.

So looking forward to next weekend when the masses clear out and I can be a bit more adventurous.