TWEET TWEET!
A beautiful specimen from the birding banding excursion near Snow Hill, MD

Resting Gaucho
A wooden model of a resting cowboy in the Marvel Carriage Museum

Assateague at Sunrise
Waking up to the buzz of bugs isn't so bad when you wake up to this...

Bird Bander
Bird Banding master, Richard Roberts, enlightened Coastal Stewards and a Ward Museum photo group on the world of Eastern shore bird banding and migration. Here, he has the bird in "photo grip."

Ooey Gooey
Sinful dessert eaten in downtown Lewes, Delaware

Rackliffe House
Visible from the near Assateague, this plantation house is pre-revolution

Doggie-Friendly Assateague
Did you know dogs are allowed at Assateague Island National Seashore's non-life guarded beaches?

Dogfish Head Brew Tours
Not only does Dogfish Head try unorthodox methods of brewing, but they also work with molecular biologist to learn and recreate ancient recipes. (You can hear all about it on a brew tour.)

The Future of Chesapeake Bay Farms
These cute little critters welcome the farm's visitors as they taste fresh ice cream and stroll around the grounds.

The historic Julia Purnell Museum in Snow Hill, Maryland

Lavender bundles from Lavender Fields near Milton Delaware

Cornbread
Stop by Trappe Creek Restaurant for their all-you-can eat crab special and cornbread when you're in the Berlin, Maryland area.

Blueberries
Good Earth Market not only sells organic goods, but also local fresh fruits and veggies.

Local Honey
Good Earth Market boasts LOCAL HONEY!

Busy Bee
Lavender Fields Farm has keeps its five hives of bees very busy with creating lavender infused honey, a French delicacy.

Two local musicians work their craft outside the opening of the Delmarva Discovery Center in Pocomoke City, Maryland

Days Gone by Museum owned and operated by Mr. Jack Knowles of Woodland, Delaware. The museum is actually in Mr. Knowles backyard.

Fishing boats
A pair of fishing boats sitting in the Ocean City Commercial Harbor.

Lunch
We witnessed a live horseshoe crab (you guessed it) feeding. That is a minnow in its mouth!

Hermie
This Assateague tour boat shared their pets with us and even let their hermit crab run around a bit.

Female Horseshoe Crab
A female horseshoe crab as she moves back to sea

Sunset Over the Bay
A beautiful sunset at our Makai condo after a long day of rain storms.

Mar-Va Theater Volunteers
The theater's volunteer-only staff takes care of all aspects of the facility, from selling concessions to cleaning up after shows. These local girls will gain community service hours in the next school year.

Local Man Power
Around here, its used for getting two-ton hard tops in place.

Pylons serve as a beautiful perch for the local gulls. What a great view from the DuPont Nature Center window.

Alex, the DuPont Nature Center's mascot, watches over the beaches where his fellow red knots fill up before their long migrations. This giant model bird is sponsored by the DuPont's Clear Into the Future Initiative, a program of the DuPont Company, and the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife.

HISTORY LIT BY LANTERN

Every Wednesday and Saturday, Fort Miles in Cape Henlopen State Park can be toured by lantern.

After an hour description of the on-goings of the area during World War II, the group heads out to the battery down the road and up the Great Dune.

Inside the battery, the air seems blank; air is cool, crisp and clean. Constantly 62 degrees Fahrenheit and dry as a hospital. This is, it was explained, what soldiers would have felt. Humidity or heat and the tons and tons of gun powder and shells that sat in the now vacant, naked, cold concrete rooms.

The tour finalizes with the revelation of the main attraction...that you will just have to see for yourself

FURNACE TOWN, THE VILLAGE (PART I)

Deep within the Pocomoke Forest sits a brick furnace that reaches to the sky between cypress trees and bog marshes. As the ivy slowly creeps up around the pipes that once recycled the hot air back into the furnace, apparitions seem to continue to load bog iron, oyster shells and charcoal into the structure.

Furnace Town, Maryland, just outside of Snow Hill, is now what is known as a living history museum, but at one time this place was exactly as this name suggests: a town existing for and around the only original structure standing today, the furnace.

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A HIDDEN TREASURE: DISCOVERSEA

He might not be throwing Nazi's out of zeppelins or getting into gunfights with swordsman, but Dale Clifton, the archeologist at the DiscoverSea Museum, leads a very interesting life, with really cool artifacts to prove it.

The DiscoverySea Shipwreck Museum, located at 708 Ocean Highway, Fenwick Island, Delaware is a very unassuming place from the outside. Situated atop of a souvenir shop, this museum is dedicated to the maritime history of coastal Delmarva. The glass cases possess pieces from wrecks that happened just off these beaches. Beautiful flatware and silverware from England and Spain fill the room along with muskets, pistols and other valuable items.

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