Bay Morning…
My dad, my camera and I took a boat ride this morning in the coves of Dundalk and around Ft. Caroll. The bay is so beautiful in the morning….
We then rode out to Ft. Carroll, which was interesting since I had not been to this fort since I was a kid. From a distance, it looks the same, but the closer you get the more you can see how it has changed.
For instance, birds called cormorants, have completely taken over the fort…
Two things that Baltimore is best known for, the bay and the steel plant…
These birds have such great personalities… it was like they were posing for the camera…
Then we floated over to the steel plant. My father worked for this plant for almost thirty years. Much to my relief, he retired just a few short weeks ago. This is one of the areas where my father used to work. He said that he used to eat his lunch out on the end of the pier. Not a bad view from there!
As the sun started to come up, we went over to the ‘big rocks’ (as I used to refer to them as a kid). Well, they are still ‘big rocks’, but they were not quite as far out as I remember them. When you are a kid, everything seems so far away! Apparently, the rocks have been taken over by birds as well…
Growing up as a daughter of a blue-collar steel worker in Baltimore, we didn’t have tons of money for fancy vacations and expensive toys. What we did have was our little green boat and each other. My family spent countless hours fishing, joy-riding, crabbing, sun-bathing and just plain floating on the waters of the Chesapeake, namely the Patapsco River.
I have never felt more at home anywhere as I do on these waters.