Recon of Pokemoke City Boat Ramps

We didn't end of getting the River Dancer into the Pokomoke before the end of the year.  I guess we still could if we get a good day and we are around.  It was a fun recon though and Pokomoke River State Park, is very nice.  We camped there a couple of times years ago.  It has cypress swamps which originate in the Great Cypress Swamp in on the Delaware side of the Delmarva.  The Pokomoke River flows southwesterly 45 miles to the Chesapeake.  There are actually two separate portions of the state park - Milburn Landing and Shad Landing. They are within the 18,000 acre Pokomoke State Forest.  There are lots of hiking trails in the area.  And I must say, they sold local ice cream made by a nearby Maryland dairy farmer that we failed to resist.  It was good.  Ice cream is kind of like pizza though which is kind of like sex - even if it's not great it's still pretty good, right? 

So we hope to put in here at the park and motor out the 66 miles of the Pokomoke. It's actually an arm of the Chesapeake at it's mouth.  The Pokomoke, in 1635, was the location of the first recorded all white man battle in North America.  The Captalists from the Virginia Company battled the Maryland Lord Baltimorists over rights to Kent Island at the mouth of the Chester River.  Maryland won. 

Lots of settlements were on the banks of the Pokomoke in the early years of our White Capitalist invasion until water-bourn transportation was etched out by roads and train tracks.  Virginia and Maryland watermen continued to battle back and forth over rights to the Pokomoke Sound so much that they began to regulate fishing in the area which ended up at the US Supreme Court who determined neither had rights to the mouth. The other major arm to the White Capitalist invasion, the US Army Corps of Engineers, stepped up and dredged the mouth to make it easier for them to fish.  Then Mother Nature stepped up and responded to all the organic waste dumped or seeping into the water and produced mass fish kills and lesions, respiratory problems and memory loss for folks eating the fish. So that's that. Charming. Not.