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Delaware Bay Norbury’s landing: horseshoe crabs fill the beach, red knots run in the surf snatching up  the protein rich  crab eggs (fuel for their flight, from the the arctic circle to Tierra del Fuego), as the blue-green waves  gently lap  the shore. Expansive estuaries team with life, amber waves of phragmites  with their tassled tops dancing in the breeze.. In the deep black mud  of the marsh, fiddler crabs  scurry into their burrows, along the inlet at Turkey Point  Where we catch blue-claws  in cubical crab traps  baited with menhaden, which leaves an iridescent oil slick floating on the dark water, where once running down a trail a razor blade of a marsh grass sliced my leg open. Rickety fishing shacks rest on stilts above the browninish-green water around Money Island. The bait and snack shop with it’s weather worn,  ...