To celebrate our fifth anniversary in July 2007, we decided to spend a long weekend on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. We stayed in a lovely B&B in Cambridge called the Lodgecliffe Inn. It was beautifully located right on the Choptank River, and Scott and Jen treated us wonderfully.

On Saturday we mostly toured Dorchester County, heading down to the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, which allowed for a very cool car tour where we saw all kinds of birds, insects, and wildlife. We headed as far south as Hoopers Island, where we visited the Star of the Sea Chapel.

We then headed back north through Talbot County, through Easton and St. Michaels, to Tilghman Island, where we boarded the skipjack Rebecca T. Ruark for a sunset sail. Captain Wade Murphy is a third-generation oysterman, and the Rebecca T. Ruark is one of the last operating skipjacks on the Chesapeake Bay.

For more photos from our trip, check out my flickr set.