Our First Two Days

It is now day 3. We have been to Rock Hall, MD and Kent Island, MD. On the first day, everybody was divided into two different watches. Our Port Watch is Morgan, Jaren, Emily, Eric, Chris, and Alex. The Starboard Watch is Zoe, Victoria, Richard, Nick, T.J., and Brian. The watch groups are responsible for many different things, on both water and land. Everybody has been participating in getting the boat on and off the dock. Also, we began using the charts to navigate through the Chesapeake Bay and have learned how to steer the boat. We have also been placed in charge of perfoming the boat checks every day in order to make sure the boat is in good shape. After camping out the first night, we all realized how much we do not like mosquitoes...especially after some of us accidently left our tents open for all of the bugs to come inside. We have also seen several different animals while we've been gone, including jellyfish, ospreys, tons of frogs and toads, turtles, and several cow-nose rays. Right now, we are being swarmed by Japanese beetles on the boat.

Yesterday, we had a lot of fun when we went crabbing with Captain Clay. We did this by trotlining and anytime we missed a crab, we had to sing a song. Some of us got to sing a lot of songs that day. We ended up catching a whole bushel of crabs that were steamed during the day and eaten for dinner. At dinner, we got a lesson from Captain Joe on the proper way to eat the crab. After being promised a reward for eating the whole bushel, some of the students (and crew) buckled down and ate every last crab we had caught. We still haven't showered, so our layers of bug spray and sunscreen are starting to pile up on our skin...but hopefully, we will be able to go swimming sometime soon.

Today, we are headed to Wye Island where we will go canoeing this afternoon.