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 "It is so known through the length and breadth of its watershed. There is no possible confusion with any other body of water, no need for more precise description. It is, after all, the continent’s largest estuary. Its waters are rich, the main supply of oysters, crabs, clams and other seafoods for much of the Atlantic seaboard. Its shorelines cradled our first settlements. It is the Chesapeake.”
The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary stretching from southernmost Virginia to northernmost Maryland, a distance of 180 miles. In textbook terms, that means the Bay is a tidal area where ocean water and fresh water mingle. In the real world, that means the Bay is the heart of an astonishly beautiful, productive and diverse natural environment. The watershed that drains into the Bay covers 64,000 miles and extends into Delaware, West Virginia, Washington DC, Pennsylvania, and New York. |
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