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When it comes to estuary’s the largest one in the United States is Chesapeake Bay of the coast of Virginia. Any of the hotels Hampton has to offer is a good place to start your exploration of the Bay. This bay is shared with Virginia and Maryland along the Atlantic Ocean and each state has a few cities along the waters edge. It has more than a hundred and fifty streams and rivers mix in with the Atlantic Ocean everyday. The area of the bay runs about 200 miles long starting from Susquehanna River down to the Atlantic. You could spend days boating in the bay in order to see most of it. The narrowest part of the bay is between Plum Point and Romney Creek and spans about 2.8 miles. The widest section of the bay is about 30 miles wide and is near the Potomac River. The bay varies in depths between 46 feet to 208 feet. It also has a few bridges built over it. One bridge is in Maryland, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and it crosses the bay from Sandy Point to Kent Island. The other is in Virignia, Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel will get travelers from Virginia Beach to Cape Charles.

There are many thing to do on the Chesapeake Bay. Boating and fishing are very popular. In fact, the seafood like blue crab, oysters and clams were the well known harvest of these waters. There is even a famous boat that is the state boat of Maryland called the shipjack. The shipjack is a sail powered work boat and the only one of its kind in the United States. The waters are not quite as plentiful with shellfish as it once was but there is still some a good business being run there. Visitors can even get out and to a little fishing and crabbing. It is still a great tourist attraction.

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