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as director of secondary education in Northampton County. This year, Northampton invited some of Dr. Gangel's new charges from Rappahannock to attend the camp. Rappahannock had a cabin-full with the five girls and chaperone/instructor Patty Waddell, biology teacher at the high school.
Parents and teachers were effusive in their praise of Dr. Gangel — both for having started the program and for his efforts toward having Rappahannock students accepted for the residency this year.
“It’s a good program. It definitely should be continued. We learned so much,” affirmed Karen Moore.
"And ice should all go again next year!" added Kelly Lawler, to the assenting nods of the rest of the quartet.
Ask them what they did that was special and the answers come tumbling one upon the other.
"We made duck decoys. We collected shells (on Wallops Island Barrier and Assateague Beach) and we learned how to indentify some of them." Shannon reported.
"We learned about the different fish in the bay and the different birds. We learned what people can do to prevent pollution," added Kelly.
“We went out on the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s boat and we learned how to do different water tests, like for salinity, turbidity and Ph. And we took bottom samples,” said Karen.
“It smelled horrible!” interjected Jessica, wrinkling her nose.
"Like rotten eggs,” Shannon explained. And they had plenty of time to identify the odor: “We went walking in the marsh and we had a marsh muck fight! We had it up to our knees."
They trawled with nets off the Sequoia, bringing up the bay’s famous blue crabs, a flounder, stinging nettles, comb jelllies, horseshoe crabs, a spider crab, sea cucumbers and sea pork. That last is “slime stuff like fat,” according to Shannon.
They visited Tangier, an island two hours by ferry into the bay. Billed as the soft shell crab capital of the world, Tangier’s economy was once based entirely on this seafood delicacy. More recently, however, tourists have discovered the onceisolated community where the police ride bicycles and the people speak in Elizabethan accents, so Tangier now has bed-and-breakfast inns and a multitude of gift shops, a development which didn’t pass unnoticed by the young ladies from RCES. But they did also remark on the seafood industry. “We held real live soft shell crabs!” reported Jessica.
And they had an opportunity to show they’d learned their conservation lessons. They’d just finished listening to'the manager of a crab house explain how pollution was threatening the bay’s shellfish and crab harvests when they saw a worker finish his cup of coffee and then toss the empty styrofoam container right into the water. The RCES bay protectors immediately reported the miscreant, and they’re certain that after a tongue lashing from the boss, he’s one former litterer who will go and pollute no more.
Other activities included canoe trips up Messongo Creek and on Swan’s Gut, where habitat goes from fresh water to salt water, and visits to the Marine Science Lab at Onancock and the Eastern Shore National Wildlife Refuge.
There were the traditional afternoon games and evening charades
See BAY, p. 15
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