Aproaching Tangier Island	Lighthouse on the way	Tangier Island from the Chesapeake
Crab Shanties along the way	Coming in to Tangier	A cross in the marsh
Beth and Milton Parks	View of Tangier Island	Work boat off Tangier Island
Crab Processing	Crab Shanty	More Crab Shanty's
A cross in the marsh	George with crab pots	George on Tangier Island
George with lighthouse on the way to Tangier	George	George at Hilda Crocketts Restaurant
Family style eating at Hilda Crocketts restaurant	The gift shop on Tangier Island	We got a skooter license plate and a hand-painted stick bobber
Golf cart on street	Graves are in front yards	House on Tangier Island
Graves on Tangier Island	Another graveyard	A house on Tangier Island
Another house on Tangier Island	Buoys along the fence	Docked at Parks Marina
Lighthouse in a yard	Looking across the island	Marsh on Tangier Island
Milton Parks of Parks Marina	Morning on Tangier Island	Put $1 in the cup and take a bag with 10 recipes!
Crab Shanty

As you can tell by all the photos, we were very impressed with Tangier Island.  It had been recommended to us by Judge Gil Burnett (who spent his honeymoon there in 2004).  There are no cars on the island, and you pass dozens of crab shanties on the way in.  The crab shanties are one room homes built on pilings with a little pier behind them for processing the crabs.  They are usually not connected to each other or to any land, so it is quite impressive to see them.  We docked at Parks Marina where we had the honor of meeting Milton Parks (about to celebrate his 74th birthday).  We ate lunch at Hilda Crockett's Family Style restaurant - delicious - and then rode bikes through the marsh.  There are about 600 residents and 3 wooden bridges to cross the marsh on the island.  The residents speak the old Elizabethan broque and the homes have the graves of relatives in the front yards (cause you can't bury someone in the marsh).  There was a sign on a street that had a plastic cool whip container stapled to it along with lots of plastic baggies.  Inside each baggie there were ten photocopies of recipes.  The sign said to place $1 in the plastic container and take one baggie full of recipes.  It was on the honor system.  There was another sign that had an empty Tide detergent box stapled to it and it read, "Put fifty cents in the box and take a map of Tangier Island".  This is a town where everyone knows everyone, and they all go to the same church!  We highly recommend visiting Tangier Island.