You have come upon my homepage which I started about June 1, 1998. At that time I did not know quite what direction it would take, except that the basic theme was to be
CHESAPEAKE BAY.

My wife and I keep a house trailer on a campground in
DELTAVILLE, VIRGINIA,
during the summer, and keep a boat in a nearby marina. Deltaville is on Stingray Point, the southern corner of the Rappahannock River where it joins Chesapeake Bay.

Our thinking right now is that this page will be a "work in progress" through the summer; a sort of diary of our activities.

So let's see how things progress at "The Rivah," as we Virginians refer to it.

   
Incidentally, we are cat fanciers and enjoy our four Persians, Willow, Buttons, Tutsi and Woodstock, the only "man" in the group. Thus the "cat" in CHESBAYCAT.

According to the geologists, Chesapeake Bay was formed with the death of the last great Ice Age twelve to eighteen thousand years ago. As the glaciers retreated and the polar ice caps shrank, huge volumes of melting ice caused the sea levels to rise and flood the ancient Susquehanna River valley, thus creating the Bay. Today we know it as the finest estuary on Planet Earth. It is nourished by six major rivers and countless lesser streams draining the mainland to the west and the eastern shore peninsula to the east.

It's modern history begins with the earliest English settlers who came upon the great James River harbor known today as Hampton Roads and established the first permanent settlement at Jamestown in the early 17th century.

That is all well and good, but this page will concern itself with the Bay of today and the enjoyment it will provide us during the Summer of 1998.