Beautiful Swimmers...

If you're not familiar with the book, grab it.
From today's NYT....

April 30, 2008
William W. Warner, Chesapeake Bay Author, Dies at 88
By WILLIAM GRIMES
William W. Warner, a former administrator at the Smithsonian Institution and the author of

I am very familar with the Chesapeake in the 1970s having boated there for years. Unfortunately the subject of the book is almost extinct in the Chesapeake as is the rest of the terrain. My fishstore was charging $40/lb for N. Carolina crabmeat last week and the pasteurized crap from Malaysia was $35/lb. Boy.

A great read.

yup...I have a whole wall full of "books of the sea" and his is part of the collection