Est. 2026 ยท From Havre de Grace to Norfolk, and every creek in between
Two hundred miles of water, and a story up every creek.
Stories from the water. Rooted in the land.
Chesapeake Bay Chronicles is a regional publication about the nation's largest estuary and the towns, waterfronts and people around it. It isn't a tourism brochure or a water-quality report. It's the place, told with care by people who love it.
Four ways in
Waterfront
The people who make the Bay a place
Profiles, features and oral histories from Bay communities, told in their own words.
Ecology
Fresh water, salt water and eighteen million neighbors
How the Bay works, what's hurting it, and why it matters to the people who live and work on it.
Field Guide
Read the water before you get in it
Practical, seasonal and opinionated. Where to check the tide, the forecast and the rules.
Tide Table
The Bay, once a week
A weekly letter: the regional stories worth your time, plus one short original essay.
The Bay, by the numbers
Soundings, the way a chart gives depths. Each figure comes from the organization that publishes it.
- miles long, from Havre de Grace, Maryland, to Norfolk, Virginia
- about 200
- average depth
- 21 feet
- miles of shoreline, counting tidal wetlands and islands
- 11,684
- square miles of land that drain into the Bay
- 64,000+
- people living in that watershed
- 18.5 million+
- species of plants and animals
- 3,600+
Sources: Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Bay Facts; Chesapeake Bay Program, The Watershed.
Where the stories will be
Waterfront
No profiles published yet.
A Waterfront story starts with a real conversation, so nothing goes up until that conversation has happened. We'd rather show you an empty page than a made-up waterman.
Tide Table, every week
The Bay stories worth your time from around the region, with credit to whoever ran them first, plus one short original essay.
The list isn't hooked up yet, so this won't send.