While in my opinion the most impressive site to behold at Point Lookout is the experience of watching Potomac River water charge into the...

Guarding the wide mouth of the Potomac along its southern edge, Smith Point Lighthouse also roughly marks the Maryland/ Virginia border...

The road to New Point Comfort Lighthouse seems to go on forever. But inevitably, it will only take you so far. Here, in the middle...

If you’re a child of the 80’s, when someone sends you on a mission to find a pet cemetery, it’s probably best to walk the other way. ...

The Old Point Comfort Lighthouse in Hampton Roads is surprisingly unassuming. Perhaps it’s the fact that the lighthouse is one of the...

The Cape Henry lighthouse was the first federally funded construction project undertaken by the newly formed United States of America in...

The Thomas Point Shoal lighthouse made some headlines in Chesapeake publications last year when it went up for auction. As charming- or...

I met Dan on two separate attempts at shad fishing on the Potomac River. The first time we fished the same bank, he outfished me...

Late to the Game. When I get that 30 foot Grady White center console, I’ll probably name it Late to the Game . That’s my typical...

I rented my kayak from Skunk Ape HQ. You read that right. Skunk Ape Headquarters. The skunk ape, long lost cousin of the common...

The Last 10 Shores Here at the end, as a whole, One Hundred Shores represents the places we can go. Every shore on the list represents...

By this point, I’ve checked off roughly 90% of the inaugural One Hundred Shores. Throughout the journey, I've come up empty plenty of...

This is the second part of a kayak exploration I took up the Rappahannock River earlier in the fall, with the goal of learning more about...

I’m out on a chilly fall morning, paddling in the middle section of the Rappahannock river. It’s the kind of fall morning when you’re...

An old tomb, built in 1734. An entrance pointing out northeast, overlooking the Potomac River. Down the hill, a new tomb built 100 years...

While the remote Delmarva shoreline and scenery is worth a trip in itself, I wonder if part of the push for a Kiptopeke State Park had to...

It’s surprising how unrestricted Mallows Bay is to explore, once you set out onto the calm, shallow water. The most prominent of the...

It's a strange irony that sunset is on the one hand so routinely expected and on the other hand so unexpectedly sublime. The most...

“I have seen for several hours together in a summer’s evening, hundreds, perhaps I might say thousands of sturgeon, at a great height...

With Halloween just over a month away, it's finally time to talk about ghosts of the Chesapeake. Not Charlie Brown costumes or spooky...