Letter From Point Lookout Hotel: fried hard crabs

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If (and I hope you will) you are going to try fried hard crabs put a little old bay seasoning in the corn meal griddle cake mix (to taste) But not the ones you cook for breakfast.

NRP will use cameras supplied by Homeland Security to catch oyster poachers at night

The Oyster War raged on the Chesapeake Bay and was portrayed in this 1884 Harpers magazine cover.  Law enforcement efforts to ride herd on watermen continues in 2010.

…officers will be more efficient in monitoring areas prone to oyster poaching using the network.

A fine time to take a trip on a charter boat

Rockfish Burt Rodgers Dec Ches

She actually said it was more fun than deer hunting. It measured 45 inches and weighed a nice thirty pounds.

There’s not much time when fire breaks out on your boat

Cobb Island VFD fireboat. THE CHESAPEAKE

Tieman’s arrival was less than five minutes after the time of the mayday call, yet the vessel’s deck was already hot enough to burn the mate’s feet before Tieman was able to evacuate the captain and mate to the TowBoatUS vessel.

Five Somalis Convicted of Piracy Against USS Nicholas

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“These five Somali pirates were convicted of an armed assault on the high seas against what they thought was a merchant vessel, but turned out to be a U.S. Navy frigate engaged in counter-piracy operations off the Horn of Africa.

Passengers on cruise ship sailing from Baltimore could have stayed home to be robbed

The Celebrity Mercury  THE CHESAPEAKE staff photo

Local heathens put a tree across the road and blocked the path of a tour bus filled with passengers on an excursion from the ship.

Safety Tips to Avoid Deep-Fried Turkey Disasters

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 – With the Thanksgiving holiday right around the corner, Allstate Insurance is talking turkey. Deep frying a turkey can be a hazardous endeavor, and Allstate wants consumers to be sure that they focus on safety. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were more than 100 reported fire incidents involving turkey fryers since [...]

The Story of the ‘Can’t Miss’: Sixteen million bricks towering above the sea!

Fort Jefferson lighthouse

     By Cap’n Larry Jarboe THE CHESAPEAKE      In April of 1980, my wife, Carlene, was a month pregnant with our first child. We decided to take a captain and mate’s holiday from the boats we worked on at the Coral Reef State Park concession for a weekend in the Dry Tortugas. Dan and [...]

St. George Island Indian Casino Gains Support from Commissioners Eager to Balance Budget; Island Soon to Separate from Bridge

St. George Island bridge from mainland

PINEY POINT (Special) — In spite of warnings from the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the O’Malley Administration has failed to act to secure and safeguard St. George’s Island from drifting away from the mainland at the same time that the local politicians have been conducting secret negotiations with the Mattaponi Indian tribe to use the [...]

Island Shows New Signs of Slippage from Mainland; Indians Set to Turn it Into Casino

St. George's Island Bridge

ST. GEORGE ISLAND, Md. (SPECIAL) — A serious disturbance in the Gregorian Fault which lies underneath the Potomac River and affects an island attached to the mainland of St. Mary’s County only by a bridge is once again showing signs of shifting. Not since 1989 when the island actually broke loose from the mainland, causing [...]

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