Re: question on Delmarva trip

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Geoff -- You need to have a permission letter from the CBBT authority. This
is freely given but must be requested. Call them at 804-331-2960 and ask for
a letter "to watch birds and other wildlife" from the tunnel islands. If there
is not enough time to mail it to you, the CBBT folks can arrange for you to
pick it up at one of the two CBBT Police Stations (at N or S end). You should
check in at one of these even with a letter in hand, as the police note your
car type and color, which saves them time (don't have to come over and check
you out when they see you parked on what is usually a closed area). The
letter is good for one year.

There are some rules which they will explain to you -- most important is not
to climb on or over the railing! The CBBT folks are proud of this program
(they have expressed this sentiment to me on several occasions) and everyone
wants to avoid aggravating them.

Some of the islands may be closed at irregular intervals for construction of
the second span -- the police will tell you which.

You still (sigh!) cannot stop and scan Fisherman's Island, even from the
pulloffs. It apparently is too disrupting to the traffic flow.

Cheers, Gail Mackiernan
gail@umdd.umd.edu

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