Catch of the Day Public Guided Tour
GUIDED TOURS: These interactive hour-long tours explore require a moderate amount of walking across uneven surfaces including gravel. Tours offered include:
- Navigating the Chesapeake: Discover the incredible history and distinctive culture of the Chesapeake Bay, exploring the connections between the environment and people over time. This tour requires walking up and down several flights of stairs.
- Oystering on the Chesapeake: Explore the history of the greatest oyster factory on Earth—the Chesapeake Bay—and how the oyster has shaped the culture, industry, and environment.
- Blue Crabs Bay to Table: Following the blue crab on its journey from the brackish Bay to our picnic tables.
- Catch of the Day: Learn what it means to “follow the water” in every season on the Chesapeake, learning about seasonal harvests such as crabs, oysters, and waterfowl.
- Seeking Freedom: Uncover the stories of freedom seekers in the Chesapeake. Living in proximity to the Chesapeake’s marshes, creeks, and rivers, enslaved people used their access and knowledge to self-emancipate.
- Lighthouses of the Chesapeake: Tour the historic 1879 Hooper Strait Lighthouse and explore the adventurous, exciting, and sometimes dangerous life of a lighthouse keeper. This tour requires walking up and down several flights of stairs.
- Boats of the Bay: Log Bottom Boats: Evolving from indigenous dugout canoe traditions, log-bottom construction resulted in rugged, utilitarian vessels that were completely unique to the Chesapeake.
- Boats of the Bay: Racing Boats: From sailing log canoes and skipjack races to one-design classes and hydroplanes, explore some of the racing traditions that keep the spirit of competition alive in the Chesapeake.
- Boats of the Bay: Working Boats: From small skiffs to large skipjacks, this tour will explore working boats in CBMM’s collection to uncover the stories of the people who worked aboard.
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$10.00
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$0.00