We sailed 25 miles across the bay from the west coast to the east to spend 2 nights anchored at Kiptopeke Beach State Park. Their extraordinary break-wall is made up of 9 submerged, cement Liberty ships (used in the second world war to transport troops). While here we took part in the park's seine net interpretive program and learned about the sea creatures in the area - blue crabs, pipe fish, horse-shoe crabs, sea nettles, fish (flounder, gar fish, sea Robin's, toad fish), oysters, mussels, clams, bull sharks, dolphins, shrimp and rays.
The shoreline is deep with blue crabs. We're not surprised to read that 60 million pounds of blue crabs are harvested in Chesapeake Bay each year. We are surprised to hear that a limit has been put on licenses to watermen in an attempt to raise the crab population.
While anchored here we had a chance to explore and observe different fishing methods such as pound nets and crab traps.
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