Rec | TANGIER ISLAND

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Rec'd on 🛣️ a place you’ve been to that you didn’t expect to ever go to

A tiny island 12 miles out into the Chesapeake Bay that feels like the setting of a Stephen King book. Due to rising sea levels, the island is destined to be underwater within 50 years. This is apparent during high tide when parts of the island become impassable. Less than 450 people still live there and primarily rely on crabbing & fishing to make a living just like the generations of watermen before them whose lineage can be traced all the way back to the 1770s. I filmed there for work in 2018 and stayed overnight at a b&b. There was no wi-fi, no cell signal, no cars, but, inexplicably, there were SO MANY cats crawling all over the island. I’m a city gal, so I was certain the place was haunted for all the reasons mentioned, but especially because people buried their dead on their own front lawns since their cemetery turned into marshland and several graves were lost to the sea. Photo cred: Ian c bates

@tunnelvisiontv

Mar 28, 2024

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