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Havre de Grace
September 23, 2009
After a well-rested night back on campus, Chesapeake Semester students headed to Havre de Grace at the north of the Bay for their final day of Voyage 1. They explored the Susquehanna flats and lighthouses on the Skipjack Martha Lewis, a sister Skipjack to Rosie Parks and the Lady Katy which were both seen at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum during orientation. After lunch on the water, students came back to shore for a guided tour of the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum.
Click to enlarge photos by Mike Hardesty '05.
Setting sails again and the girls are loving it!
Julia Krout '11 and Benjy Duke '10 talking with captain Byshe Hicks.
Web Content Writer Justine Hendricks '07 accompanied the group to capture the day's expedition in video.
Archeology Lab Director Liz Seidel enjoys the day on the water.
"Quick, everyone do something for the camera!"
Liz Shandor '11 snaps a shot of the Turkey Point Light House found Bay side of Elk Neck State Park.
Students had a lucky close pass by Fishing Battery Island Lighthouse which was built on an artificial island in 1853. It is not operational and is in disrepair today.
Benjy Duke '10 strikes a pose.
Liz Shandor '11 and Julia Krout '12 "Sailing on skipjacks is probably one of our favorite things to do in the whole universe. After graduation we would love to work on a skipjack dredging for oysters!"
Students help out on the deck tying the sails after reaching port.
In the Havre de Grace Decoy Museum students received a unique look into the strong "gunning" past of the northern bay area.
Danielle Bellezza '11 and Kelsey Hallowell '12 sing us a sailor's jig on the decks of the Martha Lewis.
Margaret Jones, a guide for the Museum discussed the rich culture of decoy making that has since flourished into a world-renowned folk art of woodcarvings.
A life-like woodcarving that exemplifies the evolution of decoy carving into a detailed art.
You wouldn't need decoys if you weren't hunting. Students also had the chance to learn more about the importance of market hunting, commercial hunting, and sport hunting in the area.
Students look on an example of an old punt gun boat that was used by market hunters to kill thousands upon thousands of waterfowl before the guns were outlawed in 1918.
Another outlawed technology for gunning on the flats is the sink boat, shown here. Kelsey Hallowell '12: "Fascinating."