Chestertown Maryland

We came up the Chester River to Chestertown.  25 miles by water, Half that by land.  We'll spend three days here visiting our old friend Dick Owen who, for 40 years, piloted ships up and down the Chesapeake Bay from Cape Henry to Baltimore, a 200 mile trip.  I once was lucky enough to go down and back with him once.  Pilot comes on board and ships captain goes to their quarters.  Dick the boss.  I met him when I was a Hopkins in the early 60's and he and his wife Paula have been terrific hosts, driving us around for groceries and supplies.

There is a storm named Melissa way out in the Atlantic that is throwing amazing storm surge at the mid-Atlantic.  200 miles up the Chesapeake and 25 miles up the Chester River, there is flooding.

There are docks under water at those pilings.

Today we went over to Rock Hall (by car) for their Fall Festival.  Lots of oysters and great music.  Good ol' authentic music.

And a kazoo band.  And a high school steel drum bands.  And lots of oysters.
So we'll head back down the Chester river when the tide turns.  But I have to wonder if a river is a river if it flows both ways.  Isn't that an estuary?  Like the Hudson up to Troy.  Is that a river if it can flow backward?