"The Ghost Ships of Virginia's Eastern Shore" Topic
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| Tango01 | 27 Oct 2020 4:15 p.m. PST |
"Visitors to Kiptopeke State Park's beach and fishing pier will notice a strange presence looming in the distance: Nine concrete ships sunk just a stone's throw from the beach. These ships are not some catastrophic shipwreck. They were placed there intentionally to form a breakwater to protect the ferry dock that once launched ships carrying passengers from Kiptopeke across the Chesapeake Bay to Virginia Beach and Norfolk. The ferry dock is long gone and now the ships serve as a hot spot for birds, kayakers and anglers. Warm weather brings in scores of brown pelicans, nesting pairs of Osprey, Cormorants and a plethora of gulls that jockey for space on the decks of the nine concrete ships…"
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