Posted by Jack Russell on September 4, 2018 · Leave a Comment
After seven months at sea tossing around like a cork, 150 or so adventurers were really anxious to set foot again on solid ground, but were afraid to stop. Luckily, the friendly Yaocomicos helped.
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Posted by Lexi Leader on August 8, 2018 · Leave a Comment
A conversation with waterman and decoy carver Tommy Deagle, a St. George Island resident. Deagle recalls the nearly two decades he crabbed and oystered the local waters. He also has carved several thousand decoys during the past 26 years, including the Eagle on Francis Goddard’s skipjack “Connie Francis.”
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Posted by Jack Russell on July 29, 2018 · 2 Comments
Waters around St. George Island are full of fish drawing yet another contingent of young ospreys, right now just learning how to fly and fish — and drawing some very active dolphins to St. George Creek as well. Video here!
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It wasn’t only Cedar Point, Jarboesville, and the Patuxent River that were changed by the arrival of the US Navy. Piney Point, St. George Island, and the waterways from whence originates Message From the Captain, were where the Navy tested its torpedoes during World War II.
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Posted by Jack Russell on March 21, 2018 · Leave a Comment
The ospreys return, ahead of St. Patrick’s Day as usual, warming water and air are drawing others birds back to their Chesapeake summering grounds and preparing the tributaries for the return of the Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab.
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Posted by Jack Russell on February 28, 2018 · 3 Comments
“In the [pungy] Joe Smith, we freighted herring after they were salted and packed in barrels. The barrels weighed more than two hundred pounds, and five hundred barrels was a full load for the Joe Smith.’ And so continues Wendell Chesser’s tales of his father’s work boat of St. George Island, MD, during the 1920s.
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 22, 2018 · 4 Comments
Wendell J. Chesser was 12 in 1920 when he began his “eternity” of “eight long years” working aboard his father’s pungy, the Joe Smith, out of St. George Island, MD.
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Posted by Jack Russell on January 10, 2018 · 1 Comment
Cap’n Jack admits to “not knowing jack” about the weather, but that doesn’t stop him from passing along watermen lore and observations of weather indicators and winter weather impacts on the Chesapeake fisheries.
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Posted by Jack Russell on December 25, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Where are the ducks and birds wintering in the Chesapeake? Cap’n Jack looks in abandoned osprey nests for the bald eagles that mostly stay out of sight when the ospreys are in town. And there are plenty of ducks around as well.
Posted by Jack Russell on December 15, 2017 · Leave a Comment
There are no waterfowl so storied as the Canada goose.
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