Tangier Island, Virginia
Abandoned boats, looking west toward the West Ridge.
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Tangier Oil Company is the island's supplier of diesel, gasoline and heating oil. They have a modified golf cart tanker that can deliver heating oil to one house at a time.
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The Bay View Inn Bed and Breakfast. The wonderful breakfast is served in the room behind the bell.
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Crab's at the mayor's shedding shack.
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Our host, the mayor, James "Ooker" Eskridge explaines that the male crabs have the Washington Monument underneath and the females have the Capital dome.
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Here Ooker shows us a softshell shedding it's old shell. It's hard o believe it come out of theat tiny shell! You have to get them on ice right away to prevent them from getting hard.
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Ooker holds a spider crab with an oyster attached to its back.
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Ooker shows us a blue crab.
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If you hold your hand on the bottom of the water the crabs don't see it as a threat and will ignore it.
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The hardshells sit in these trays on the shedding shack. Someone keeps a 24 hour watch to make sure the crabs are collected as soon as they shed their shell.
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Ooker shows us a box of soft-shells all package up for transport to the Eastern Shore, they will be trucked straight to New York City to go to high-end seafood restaurants.
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Ooker's adopted daughter (from India) is visiting from Louden County and helps package soft-shells.
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Ooker on the dock of his crab shack.
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Ooker takes us out for a little tour of the area in his boat.
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Across Mailboat Harbor is a small island owned by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. They have an educational (party) center here.
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Looking east from the Chesapeak Bay Foundations property on Tangier.
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Stopping back at Ooker's shedding shack.
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The Jeannie Rae at a crab shack.
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A classic Chesapeake Bay deadrise boat with storm clouds in the distance.
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Collecting old glass at the shore is a popular passtime here.
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