Potomac Breaches Sea Wall on St. George Island

Halfway through the making of today’s second high tide, expected at 2:30 p.m. on St. George Island, Maryland, the shifting wind, from northeast to northwest, drove down Island Creek, a shallow gut of water cut from the last deep water of the Potomac River.

The video below shows the creek lapping over the seawall at Sea-Fruit Oyster House situated near its mouth.

St. George Island dangles from Maryland into the mouth of the Potomac River like a crescent wrench wedged across the compass rose. From the tip of the island’s under bite a slice of the southern horizon peeks through the funneling mouths of Island Creek into St. George Creek into St. Mary’s River into the Potomac River into the Chesapeake Bay and finally, out of sight, into the Atlantic Ocean.

Looking down the funnel, if you had sight capable of such a feat, it would not rest until landed upon the West Indies.

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