“On a cold, blustery November morning, I boarded a no-nonsense workboat, along with a group of working watermen, for the final day of the Middle Peninsula Watermen’s Tourism Training Course, a four-day workshop to train watermen to conduct ecotours. As we chugged out of Broad Creek, headed for the open waters of Chesapeake Bay, these working watermen demonstrated the science of oyster dredging, listened to a lecture on the early American Indians along the Chesapeake Bay by Deanna Beacham, an American Indian specialist with the National Park Service’s Chesapeake Bay Office, and swapped ideas on what it would take to start their own tours in the future.”