Tell me about a place of interest near your home.

Tahoe was pretty awesome
cold, but awesome

 

It looks really bad ass now with all the snow. I wish I didn't suck at at skiing lol.

 

The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States. It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by Maryland and Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay's watershed covers 64,299 square miles (166,534 km2) in the District of Columbia and parts of six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. More than 150 rivers and streams drain into the Bay.

The word Chesepiooc is an Algonquian word referring to a village "at a big river." It is the seventh oldest surviving English place-name in the U.S., first applied as "Chesepiook" by explorers heading north from the Roanoke Colony into a Chesapeake tributary in 1585 or 1586. In 2005, Algonquian linguist Blair Rudes "helped to dispel one of the area's most widely held beliefs: that 'Chesapeake' means something like 'Great Shellfish Bay.' It doesn't, Rudes said. The name might actually mean something like 'Great Water,' or it might have been just a village at the bay's mouth."

n the 1970s, the Chesapeake Bay was discovered to contain one of the planet's first identified marine dead zones, where hypoxic waters were so depleted of oxygen they were unable to support life, resulting in massive fish kills. Today the bay's dead zones are estimated to kill 75,000 tons of bottom-dwelling clams and worms each year, weakening the base of the estuary's food chain and robbing the blue crab in particular of a primary food source. Crabs themselves are sometimes observed to amass on shore to escape pockets of oxygen-poor water, a behavior known as a "crab jubilee". Hypoxia results in part from large algae blooms, which are nourished by the runoff of farm and industrial waste throughout the watershed. This algae prevents sunlight from reaching the bottom of the bay while alive and deoxygenates the bay's water when it dies and rots. The erosion and runoff of sediment into the bay, exacerbated by devegetation, construction and the prevalence of pavement in urban and suburban areas, also blocks vital sunlight. The resulting loss of aquatic vegetation has depleted the habitat for much of the bay's animal life. Beds of eelgrass, the dominant variety in the southern bay, have shrunk by more than half there since the early 1970s. Overharvesting, pollution, sedimentation and disease has turned much of the bay's bottom into a muddy wasteland.

It's an extremely delicate ecosystem and with the possible exception of the lower Amazon basin, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. This is how I prefer to see it:



A traditional Chesapeake Bay Skipjack. My Cal 25 goes to her new home today so perhaps I'll build one.

 

you can build a whole boat?

 

reno, it's near lake tahoe, wonderful events a good chunk of the summer, including burning man, harrah's automobile museum, the awful awful, a giant hamburger in down town reno at the reno nugget (not ths sparks nugget) the first harrah's hotel casino, lots of nice buffets, world class trout fishing.

 

I got cred, baby. I have an engineering degree and power tools. I can build anything.

 

i.e. his great grandfather designed and built the olympic-class passenger liner rms titanic


Hotwater

 

Actually he was from Antrim, not Belfast, where the Harland and Wolff Shipyards were located.

Nice try, though.

 

I'd suggest you just pass through. Amarillo's alright, but the good parts of the city take an hour to get to, and it's a long boring road there. I don't suggest you stop through my town at all period, lol.

 

Back home, haha.

 

what if i want some DQ?

 

Shunkin Head Tattoo on Saint John in northeast KCMO .. best Tattoo studio in KC

 

behind my house in a little forest area with a 15ish feet wide circle of dirt and there's a small statue (3ish feet tall) that someone put there and theres something about it that makes me not wanna be there at night.

 

There's one in damn near every small town you'll drive through. Trust me, our town is NOT important. At all. lol

 

fuck texas with all their DQs. have to drive to the city to find one around here.

 

yea, but yours has you
its different

 

There really isn't anything interesting around here. We have a western art museum, indian burial mounds, and a covered bridge. haha And people wonder why there are so many pregnant women here. Hell there is nothing else to do.

 

every small town has a kinky_ramona.