Waterman towns on the Eastern shore of Maryland

Classic Deadrise keel Chesapeake workboats in the moring sun at Bozman, MD on Broad creek, off the Choptank River.

Maryland crab baskets

2 workboats

Lighthouse at St. Michael's Maritime Museum, Skipjack sail mast's on right of photo.

Crab pots and Workboat at Crisfield, on the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Workboats at Crisfield Maryland, located on the lower third of the Demarva Peninsula (Delaware, Maryland, Virginia)

Color photo of Workboat harbor.

Mounds of Oyster shells left over after oyster is shucked from shell.  In some locations entire islands have been constructed from the shells or maybe a whole town as in the namesake "Shelltown".

Marsh wetlands as far as the eye can see in Dorchester county, Maryland.  This must look familiar to Canvasback ducks as wheat fields and prairie pothole breeding country of the Western U.S. and Canada look similar.

Welcome to Hooper's Island.  One of the remaining Waterman's enclaves on the Eastern Shore.

Workboats at Fishing Creek, MD

A black and white shot of Workboats in Fishing Creek, which is a small enclave that precedes Hooper's Island.

Picturesque Workboat harbor at Fishing Creek, MD  Note yellow crabpots.

Some tools of the Waterman's trade.

Old Donkey winch on a way-rail used to launch workboats into the harbor.