Kent Island Day 2013
At the Eastern Bay, we love a parade! Kent Island Day, the celebration of the founding of Kent Island in 1631, doesn’t disappoint. A parade down Main Street in Historic Stevensville, historic exhibits,...
View ArticleChesapeake Bay Crab Numbers Take a Dive
We caught & enjoyed these beauties – all males, check their claws – in May this year. When I posted the photo above on Facebook last week, one of my friends emphatically asked: “5″ point to point...
View ArticleKent Fort Farm Peachfest is Saturday August 3
Wow – time really flies. Here’s us at Kent Fort Farm Peachfest just last year, one of the best summer events on Kent Island IMHO. August 2012: ,,, and here we are this year at Kent Fort Farm, picking...
View ArticleCascia Vineyard & Winery
Awesome thing to do on Kent Island #567: visit Cascia Vineyard & Winery! I was able to get there twice this summer, once with a group of women (yay! Perfect girls day!) and then again on a double...
View ArticleDiving For Oysters on the Chesapeake
Yesterday my husband spotted a boat out on the Bay. Nothing unusual there. Then we noticed they had a blue dive flag up! They were diving for oysters on an October morning. VERY cool. It’s possible...
View ArticleBay Fisherman
Hubs got some ink recently in the Maryland DNR Weekly Fishing Report. I can vouch: that perch made GREAT eating! It’s been fun to learn the local waters and hear stories of the “ones that got away” as...
View ArticleKayaker on the Eastern Bay?!?
You read correctly. This photo was taken on January 3rd, our “snow day.” This was a few days prior to the current frigid cold snap, with single-digit temps … but STILL. Kayaking in 30 degree weather?...
View Article“FOG!”
“I’m giving my four-year-old the benefit of the doubt in believing she just yelled “FOG!” instead of another word. It is very foggy outside today …” A friend posted this on Facebook over the weekend. I...
View ArticleFrozen Chesapeake Bay
What a winter! From a frozen Chesapeake Bay … Scooting rocks across the frozen Eastern Bay Mallards on ice at Kent Narrows … to myriad school cancellations and cabin fever … … to our first sledding...
View Article‘Tis the Season
You heard it here first. It’s officially crab season in Maryland on the Eastern Bay. We’re eating them, catching them and enjoying all that the season has to offer. Summer delights are not limited to...
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