Road Trip Day. We decided to go to Port Tobacco today. Pulled into the site and realized we had visited there a year or so ago. Actually, I think I had mixed up the name with another place I wanted to visit. If was probably a good thing we had visited here before because it was probably closed. We drove on down the road to a park called Port Tobacco River Park. It had a few short trails so we decided to walk a little. The first trail we walked abruptly ended with a roped off area for nesting eagles. Thought how interesting. Made a right turn to continue our wald and saw a viewing platform with scopes on them. We were looking up at a tree and assumed we were looking at an abandoned eagle nest and what do we see but the head of an eagle. We were so excited. A local walked by and gave us some information about the nest. She told us there was an eagle cam on the Calvert County site.
Just driving on down the road we found the Chapel Point State Park. This is an undeveloped public recreation area in Charles County, MD. According to Wikipedia, in the early 20th century, Chapel Point had an amusement park with facilities for roller skating and social functions and played host to the first Charles County fair. What we found there was an abandoned farmhouse, several collapsed buildings, some old (possibly tobacco) barns, and other outbuildings such as a chicken coup.
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