Chesapeake Bay boater ignored

[Disco*Nova]

As long as I am on my PC I will be here every day.

Upper Chesapeake, Susquehanna River area.

I see you're in Fallston, I'm in Jarrettsville, and put my 21' Wellcraft Nova in at Lapidum all the time.

Debating going out today, but the weather isn't looking promising.

Maybe I'll see you on the water.

[240 LTS]

I see you're in Fallston, I'm in Jarrettsville, and put my 21' Wellcraft Nova in at Lapidum all the time.

Debating going out today, but the weather isn't looking promising.

Maybe I'll see you on the water.

Lappidum is the place with the State season pass.

I have been working too much to get out lately.

Keep in touch.

Jeff

[Mike F]

It truly is sad, the bay is in bad shape and it needs to change, it is a national treasure that all surrounding states should be working together on in order to improve its condition.

It reminds me of a day trip me and my wife took a couple years ago to St Michaels maritime museum. One of the exhibits was on John Smith, and there was a plaque with one of his quotes, i believe this was the one....

“A few Bevers, Otters, Beares, Martins and minkes we found, and in divers places that aboundance of fish, lying so thicke with their heads above the water, as for want of nets (our barge driving amongst them) we attempted to catch them with a frying pan: but we found it a bad instrument to catch fish with: neither better fish, more plenty, nor more variety for smal fish, had any of us ever seene in any place so swimming in the water, but they are not to be caught with frying pans.”

Captain John Smith, 1608

He also had this to say about the bay....

"Within is a country that may

have the prerogative over the most pleasant places of Europe, Asia, Africa, or America. for large

and pleasant navigable rivers: heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for means of

habitation . . .”

I can only imagine the beauty and abundance of the bay as Mr Smith saw it 400 years ago.

I would have loved to see that. What do you think the first Indian did when he caught a crab?

[jamisjockey]

I would have loved to see that. What do you think the first Indian did when he caught a crab?

Probably went to the medicine man for a penicillin shot.

[240 LTS]

I would have loved to see that. What do you think the first Indian did when he caught a crab?

Can't even imagine the soft shell crabs they would have found along the edges. Sea spiders!

Think of what the Flats looked like in April and May. Although it was not the the flats as we have come to know it. Hurricane Agnes in 1972 changed the bay for ever.

The rockfish must have still come up there to spawn. That would have been a sight to see.

[Disco*Nova]

Lappidum is the place with the State season pass.

I have been working too much to get out lately.

Keep in touch.

Jeff

Yep, the pass is also good at any state park, including Dundee.