Monthly Archives: November 2010

Here is the blog-posted summary of conditions from this month’s water quality testing by Diana Muller, South River Keeper, and Americorps-person Jennifer Carr (see the Washington Post for 27 November, Metro Section) on the South River. Maybe water… Continue reading →

“Erik’s Beavers” (Michelsen, of course) on the middle branch of the top of Church Creek have been busy. We kayaked and pushed the kayak about as far as it would go with the very low tide Sunday, and got a good look at the new lower level of the be… Continue reading →

Great story from the Cape Verde islands.. . . .The Professional Windsurfers Association just held their final event for 2010 on our little island. They built an enclosure with concrete and metal on a turtle nesting beach. Nobody bothered to find o… Continue reading →

Good overview of one small watershed’s attempt to clean it up — good science plus citizen involvement. . . . a rural area with major inputs from farming and little of the suburban/high level of impervious surface that characterizes Annapolis’s w… Continue reading →

Back in the 1980’s when we had first bought MEANDER, we brought her up to a marina on the Anacostia River, so that we could work on the boat (we lived in DC at the time).The boat was supposedly 52 feet from the water line to the top of the mast, a… Continue reading →