St Michaels Pictures

Well the Blogger people are playing again and now the slide show link from Picassa is not working...hence I will have to post with lots of individual pictures for a while. So here is the previous 'slide show'!

St. Michaels Harbor entrance

Circa early 1800's

Bad view of Main Street there was much more to it than this.

Circa mid 1700's

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum
Hooper Strait Lighthouse moved here in 1966. It gave a very good depiction of  the keepers life .

Skip Jack 'Rosa Parks' ....museums restoration Project...that is with a capital P  !

This is a restored Bug Eye (or log boat as it is build from solid logs and hollowed out like a canoe.  It was built in 1879 and is a functioning boat.  It is the only Bug Eye still in use on the Chesapeake as far as they know.

BIG...BIG Bandsaw!

Display of Boats in one of the museums buildings

Another example of a Chesapeake Bay Watermen's Boat

Joe the retired Waterman who was kind enough to give a demo of oystering and answering my questions about crabbing.  

This  is a Skip Jack...the little boat behind is not the dinghy but the propulsion for the boat . It pushes it around like a little tug!  It was used by the watermen of old but they are now mostly for pleasure as the powered boats have taken over and made the job easier.