Typically we greet our guests formally – NOT. But this is what we look like, minus the tux and rhinestones. Todd is a hopeless maritime nut who works for the Park Service when he is not here banging nails into things, messing around with boats and sailing. Ellen (that’s me on the left ) works part time for an architecture firm when she is not running after the kids, cleaning boats and greeting guests.

Though we haven’t given up our more gainful employment, we opened Fisherman’s Dock to guests in the summer of 2004 after Todd woke up in the middle of the night sketching …

And thus our future as your hosts on the Chesapeake Bay was cast.

We built both the Dove and the Ark from the ground up in the first and second years, respectively. We then found Panacea and saved her from being crushed up and sent to a landfill. This actually took a lot longer than building from scratch, but we just hated the idea of the waste and plugged ahead.

This kind of recycling is just one way we have integrated our environmental sensibilities into Fisherman’s Dock. You won’t be able to miss our composting toilets or the less than steaming hot and under-pressured showers, but you may have to look harder for the other things we do here to preserve the Bay and the environment in general. The dock is home to an oyster nursery that will provide healthy oysters for planting on Oyster Reefs the West and Rhode Rivers. Our landscape features native plantings predominantly and we are enhancing our soft shoreline – all good things for the other critters in the bay. If our lawn looks a bit scraggly, just take solace in the knowledge that no fertilizer will be running off it and creating algae blooms in the Bay. And when you get bit by a mosquito, blame the purple martins and bats for which we have put up housing.

COMING SOON A FULLY ELECTRIC CHEVY S-10. When she’s done, we’ll be happy to show her to you and take you for a spin. We just got tired of waiting for a plug-in Prius.

Some might say we ask a lot of our guests to put up with some of these “inadequacies” but we see ourselves as reaching out to like-minded people and offering them a unique and affordable way to experience the Chesapeake. We know you are out there and this may just be your kind of place to relax.