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Every Chesapeake beach is a catalogue of organic failure. The area between high and low tide is strewn with the wreckage of a multitude oflives. The shells of mollusks lie broken and abraded in the sand; the fragments of fish bones protrude between the rolling grains; occasionally flashes of shining silver denote the presence of scales detached from some finny body which once moved in the cool green depths; logs spotted with barnacles bleach in the hot sun; and the lacy patterns of colonial bryozoans filigree graying strands of withering seaweed.

The Bay

Gilbert Klingel

"Feller hasn't run ashore, he don't much know this Bay," a waterman once said to me after he pulled my ketch off a tenacious sandbar.  It was the nicest thing anyone could possibly say under such embarrassing circumstances and it made me feel much better.  What he meant, of course, is that the Chesapeake does not lack for the shallow water that is another prime estuarine requirement. The average depth of the Chesapeake, mother river and tributary channels included, is twenty-one feet. 

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"Feller hasn't run ashore, he don't much know this Bay," a waterman once said to me after he pulled my ketch off a tenacious sandbar. It was the nicest thing anyone could possibly say under such embarrassing circumstances and it made me feel much better. What he meant, of course, is that the Chesapeake does not lack for the shallow water that is another prime estuarine requirement. The average depth of the Chesapeake, mother river and tributary channels included, is twenty-one feet.

Beautiful Swimmers

William Warner

"Feller hasn't run ashore, he don't much know this Bay," a waterman once said to me after he pulled my ketch off a tenacious sandbar.  It was the nicest thing anyone could possibly say under such embarrassing circumstances and it made me feel much better.  What he meant, of course, is that the Chesapeake does not lack for the shallow water that is another prime estuarine requirement. The average depth of the Chesapeake, mother river and tributary channels included, is twenty-one feet. 

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An Island Out of Time

Tom Horton

"Feller hasn't run ashore, he don't much know this Bay," a waterman once said to me after he pulled my ketch off a tenacious sandbar.  It was the nicest thing anyone could possibly say under such embarrassing circumstances and it made me feel much better.  What he meant, of course, is that the Chesapeake does not lack for the shallow water that is another prime estuarine requirement. The average depth of the Chesapeake, mother river and tributary channels included, is twenty-one feet. 

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