Before leaving Richmond, I had the good fortune to tag along with my friend, Gabe Silver, who is the Education and Outreach Manager for the
James River Association. He and the new
Lower James Riverkeeper, Jamie Brunkow, needed to move some boats around down in the tidal portion of the river below Hopewell. I came along for the ride before heading further east.
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| Jamie Brunkow in his Riverkeeper boat, which he uses to monitor the whole stretch of the tidal James River from Richmond down to the Bay. |
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| Ship headed back out to the ocean, likely coming back from one of the factories or the Port of Richmond. |
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| Gabe Silver, drives JRA's new 45-ft pontoon boat past Westover Plantation where it had been temporarily docked. Gabe, his wife, Sonya, and five others just returned from an 800-mile journey up the Intracoastal Waterway from Florida to bring the pontoon boat to its new home on the James River. All with a hurricane on their tale. Read about the wild ride here. |
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| Jamie and Gabe park the new pontoon boat. It will be used to take local school kids out on the the river to learn about the wonders of the James. |
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| Folks fishing on the James River, just below dowtown Richmond |
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