September 17, 2024 • 21 mins
Through the first 10 episodes of Delightful Destinations, I’ve been lucky enough to speak with a few representatives of counties on what’s known as the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If you’re listening to this podcast and you’re not super familiar with the geography of Maryland, the state is almost kind of split in two by the Susquehanna and the Chesapeake Bay. Both sides of the state have very different styles. The western shore is what most people recognize of Maryland. You’ve got Baltimore, the I95 corridor, the DC area etc. On the eastern shore it’s a little more rural, you’ve got the beaches, nature and a whole lot of water activity.
I’m excited this week to bring you a conversation about the beautiful Queen Anne’s County. If you’re on the western part of the state and you want to go east you have to cross the Bay Bridge. The Bay Bridge dumps you off right in Queen Anne’s County. While that initial area is filled with shops, restaurants and activity, the county has so much more to offer.
Joining me today is April Plummer. She’s the Marketing and Destination Development Specialist for Queen Anne’s County. This was a great chat. I’ll admit to you that I haven’t spent a lot of time exploring Queen Anne’s County. My wife and I have spent a little time in the Kent Island area, and we’ve driven through to get to Ocean City. But that’s about it. I loved hearing more about what the county has to offer and the fun opportunities going on this fall. I hope you enjoy my conversation with April Plummer.
I’m excited this week to bring you a conversation about the beautiful Queen Anne’s County. If you’re on the western part of the state and you want to go east you have to cross the Bay Bridge. The Bay Bridge dumps you off right in Queen Anne’s County. While that initial area is filled with shops, restaurants and activity, the county has so much more to offer.
Joining me today is April Plummer. She’s the Marketing and Destination Development Specialist for Queen Anne’s County. This was a great chat. I’ll admit to you that I haven’t spent a lot of time exploring Queen Anne’s County. My wife and I have spent a little time in the Kent Island area, and we’ve driven through to get to Ocean City. But that’s about it. I loved hearing more about what the county has to offer and the fun opportunities going on this fall. I hope you enjoy my conversation with April Plummer.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, what's going on? Everyone? Welcome to Delightful Destinations. My
name is Jeff Saint Pierre. Delightful Destinations is a show
designed to give people an inside or deeper look at
vacation locations around Maryland, the mid Atlantic, and of course
other places as well. My hope is to speak with
people who know these areas inside and out and maybe
inspire you for your next getaway. Through the first ten
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episodes of Delightful Destinations, I've been lucky enough to speak
with a few representatives of counties on what's known as
the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If you're listening to this
podcast and you're not super familiar with the geography of Maryland,
the state is almost kind of split into by the
Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay. Now, both sides of
the state have very different styles. I think the Western
(00:44):
Shore is what most people recognize of Maryland. You've got Baltimore,
you've got the I ninety five Corridor, the DC area,
et cetera. On the Eastern Shore, it's a little more rural.
You've got beaches, nature, and a whole lot of water activity.
So I'm excited this week to bring you a come
conversation about the beautiful Queen Anne's County. If you're on
the western part of the state and you want to
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go east, you've got across the Bay Bridge, and the
Bay Bridge dumps you right off in Queen Anne's County.
While that initial area is filled with shops, restaurants and activity,
the county really has so much more to offer. Joining
me today is April Plumber. She's the marketing and destination
development specialist for Queen Ann's County. This was a really
great chat. I'll admit to you that I haven't spent
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a lot of time exploring Queen Ann's County. My wife
and I have spent a little time in the Kent
Island area, and of course we've driven through to get
to Ocean City, but that's really about it. I loved
hearing more about what the county has to offer and
the fun opportunities that are going on this fall. I
really hope you enjoy my conversation with April Plumber.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Of course, it's my pleasure. I want to know a
little bit more about you before we dive into your county,
because I think that helps me understand a little bit
more about why you want to sell the county so well, So, April,
tell me more about yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So, I've been.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Doing marketing for over ten years now, domestic and international.
I used to work in manufacturing actually, so I got
an opportunity to switch over to tourism, which I jumped
at and I've had a blast ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I grew up in Queen Anne's County, I went to
school here, I've lived here my whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So I think it's really.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Cool to look at it from a different lens and
kind of show up everything that we have from the
county to visitors that come here.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I think it's interesting. And the ten or so interviews
I've done since starting this podcast, everybody but one is
someone that grew up in the place, the state, or
the county that they are representing, And I find that
so fascinating that people can grow up somewhere and just
have this sort of innate love for where they are.
They're like, I want to sell this. I want people
to come see it too.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
A lot in our whole team that focuses on this
side of our work is the same boat. Our director
born and raised here as well, and loves it, so
I think that really helps us kind of lean into
it and truly kind of show visitors how great it is.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I think there's something too to what you said before
about how you're looking at things in the county through
a different lens. And I think sometimes I was just
visiting some family and we were talking about doing some
touristy things and they were like, yeah, we've never done
that before, and I'm like, that's interesting because I'm coming
from someplace further away and that's what I want to do.
But you live here and it's not interesting to you
at all. So I think it's interesting when you live
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in a place, how you might not be able to
see all the wonderful things that might be around you
because it is your home and you take it for
granted a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's like getting out on the water, you know, going
out all the time as a kid, and still now
I go out every chance I get on a boat.
But I think it's one of those things that you
absolutely have to do while you're here. It's a must
to get the full Chesteake Bay experience. So it's something
that we don't think about as much because we've always
gone out on the water a lot, but it's our
number one driver for visitors. It's like you have to
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do it. It's a must do while you're here.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All right, April, you meet somebody in an elevator and
you tell them you work for Queen Ann's County. You're
trying to get people to come by. Give me your
elevator's speech about Queen Ann's County.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So I always say you have to come, get out
on water and experience the full Chestpeake Bay adventure. I
think that coming over to the Eastern Shore is a
little bit different experience than the rest of Maryland. Although
all it's great and it all has some of the
best things to offer, but I think you get over
it's a little bit more relaxed lifestyle and we're still
close to everything. So my pitch is to always get
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out on the water. Book with a charter, maybe go
fishing or crabbing, or do something fun. Bring your family.
It's family friendly. Our dining is very well known. We
have a good dock and dining set up if you
have a boat. If you don't have a boat, no worries.
You can still eat waterfront and it's true waterfront where
you're actually sitting sometimes on the dock or the deck
directly looking over the water. And then I always tell
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people to outdoor recreation is done best in Queen Ane's County.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We have so many things to do for outdoor recreation.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You can bring everybody, and then we have a full
list of corritors that you can do. So we have
five breweries, two wineries and one distillery. So I think
between all of those things you can really feel like
a week here and stay and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Queen Ens County has this huge area of land. You've
got so many different things to offer. You just talking
about the water, but I also feel like it's a
space where like it's the connector between the eastern and
the western shore. So there's a lot of people that
just know it mostly as this is the road that
I'm driving to get to somewhere else. How do you
get people to stop and say, hey, hey, there's more here,
please stop your guard.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, So that's interesting because we've seen a huge uptick
in a change in that. So it was like that
for a long time, and I think everybody's kind of
slowing down a bit and they'll stop even if they're.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Traveling through typically stop and eat.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think it's because our restaurants are so well known,
and once they stop once, then they kind of get hooked,
and then realizing that there's so much more to do,
we've started to have people stay here for a night
or two, even if they're traveling through, just.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
To stay and experience it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And especially if you want to unwind a little bit,
they'll usually visit either Chespeake Bay Environmental centerch we call
Seabeck or Wye Island and they'll height and they'll do
kayak rentals or you know, something to just kind of
unwind a bit. And I think that's where we have
kind of like a niche area as people are traveling through,
and we say it's where shore living begins because it's
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really where you enter the shore.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So that's our tagline. I think it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, I've noticed even just the last few years that
a lot of businesses have opened places there along the
route that folks will be driving, and I think it's
giving people another opportunity to maybe, you know, if traffic's
bad or whatever, you stop, you hang out and you
see something else that you might not have seen. I know,
a big truck Farms just opened up a brewery over
there along fifty. I believe you've got some other investments
I've noticed over the years. I think that's great that
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people are bringing in some more activity.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Absolutely, there's plenty of stuff to do as you're driving
along that main corridor, and then if you get off,
there's even more stuff to do, so it's definitely worth
kind of planning in and adding that extra time. We
also have some people like to stay overnight, even if
they're traveling through. That's always a great way to kind
of work in a little bit of relaxing downtime, either
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before after your trip, and then we've had some shift
completely instead of driving through they stay here. Now we've
seen a huge uptick of that in the last couple
of years, so that's been great for.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Us as well.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Aprice saw something Crabs and Crushes, and I feel like
these are two things. I love, crabs and crushes, So
how are these merging together? And tell me more about this.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So we put together a campaign for that last year
and we've continued running it this year. So Crabs and
Crushes is like the quintessential Eastern Shore experience. It's a
traditional drink, traditional meal, and it's a great combo.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I can't think of any other better combo.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So we put together Crabs and crushes and you can
go to Crabs and Crushes dot com to see all
the places that serve these. And it's not just the
standard orange crushes. They have all different flavors. You can
get steam crabs, and if you don't like steam crabs,
you can get something else that has a crab in it,
like crab cake. We have award winning crab cakes, award
winning crab soups, so you can get something crab based
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and then fresh crushes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So you're an insider me your favorite places. So it's
a bit of a loaded question, I know, but give me,
give me a couple of high Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So I have a lot of them, but the outdoor
wreck stands out to me. So I think if you're
gonna if you're into golfing, we have great courses here.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We have Queensland Harbor and we have Blue Heron.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I think that's like a great thing to do and
it pairs well with something else outdoors, like shooting clays.
So we have the point of pintail that you can
do that I think getting out on a boat is
my number one choice, and just seeing everything by water.
We have two waterfront wineries, so that's always a great choice.
And we also have fiberies and as a stillery as
I mentioned earlier, So I think kind of all of
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that wrapped together, plus adding in the trails, the hiking.
We have a beach, we have restaurants with beach access,
and we have waterfront restaurants. And then if you are
in season, which is typically April to Labor Day, when
you're here, you can go visit at Godfrey's Farm, which
is a new pick farm. So that's a great experience
if you have especially if you have kids with as well.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, kids activities seems to be top of mind for
us these days is where can we go that we
can feel comfortable bringing our child.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
So pretty much everywhere is kid friendly in queeny An'es.
It's pretty laid back everywhere that you go. Our restaurants
are the same. Do you pick Godfrey's You pick is
a great one. But what I typically like to do
when I have my son is Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center.
You can rent kayaks there, you can hike, It's quiet
and they can be as loud as they want because
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they're outside. Why Island Natural Resource Management Area is a
great one.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
There's some really cool trees.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
There's a holly tree there that's almost two hundred and
ninety years old, so that's kind of something neat to see.
So I try to focus like on outdoor activities. Cross
Island Trails South Island Trail are great for kids as well,
but pretty much anywhere outdoors and restaurants, it's all kid friendly,
so they'll have a good time with you as well.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
My wife and I a few years back did like
a Ken Island day or we drove over it is
kind of hung around the area, did some walking along
the nature trails and got food there on one of
the docks. I forget. Is there a restaurant that's like
a Red Eye or something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, red Eyes Dock Bar, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yep. We went to red Eyes Dock Bar and we
kind of got a little bit of a Ken Island
experience and it really is a beautiful spot right there
in that particular area of Queen Ann's County.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah. And there's the Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center, Yes, yeah,
so that's always a great stop. Faerry Point Park, is
there so let's the kids take a quick hike if
they want, and you can also fish here. And the
site at Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center has been redone,
so it's been raised and the parking lot has been changed,
so this.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Is always a great Stotner's plenty of parking.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I know you got a lot of big events coming
up here as we get into the fall, because I
find that fall. I know a lot of people like
to go over on the Eastern Shore here to enjoy
the water in the summertime, but I love the fall
time all on the Eastern Shore because I just think
the nature is amazing and the temperatures are a little
bit cooler, so you can really get out there and
enjoy some of those things. But you've got some big
events coming up here in the fall. Why don't we
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start with the and I'm gonna say get wrong, Concorde Elegance.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I agree, the falls the perfect time to visit.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Concourse Day Legance is held at the Kent Island Yacht Club.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's a very cool event.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
So that got moved here last year to queen EN's
County's staying in Queen Ann's County and they have some
of the coolest cars that you'll ever get to see.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's it's kids kit friendly.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You can get your tickets in advance and go to
that September twenty seventh through the twenty ninth. So if
you're thinking like antique and vintage rolls, Royces and Bentley's
and really cool cars that you don't get to see
a lot, they're all there. It's a very cool experience.
They'll have food and vendors and a lot of fun
stuff to do. And then our biggest event that we
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have is the Bay Bridge Run, so that is November tenth.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, you can register.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's a walk run, it's fun for everybody, all ages.
You can register. And then the after party is in
Queenan's County so you can attend that and it's kind
of an all day thing. And then the Waterman's Crab
Basket Tree Lighting is another big event we have, which
is December seventh this year, so from twelve to six
their spenders and this year they are expanding they're going
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to have the bar open as well while you're there.
It's located at Fisherman's Crap Deck and this is ran
by the Watermen's Association of Queenann's County, so this, you know,
is a fundraiser for them. And then at six pm
they Santa COM's and they light the tree.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So that's a that's a fun one too.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That sounds like a really great time. I got to
go back to the bridge run because I've done that before.
I want to say twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen was
the time that I did it. And I remember we
parked our car over on the like Annapolis side, on
the Western Shore side, and the bus that was driving
us to the starting line missed the exit and took
us all the way across the Bay Bridge. The bus
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drivers like, isn't this the start. We're like, pretty sure
this is the finish. We got to go back. We
gotta get back on the other side. But it was
a really cool experience because I it's just, I don't know,
it's wild to not be in a car or a
vehicle as you're going over the bridge. Like at one
point I thought to myself, boy, these barriers are a
lot lower than I thought they were while I'm running over.
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But it's I don't know, but there's something so special
and magical about that moment.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, it is a very cool experience, and it sounds
like you're Bush Shriver just wanted to get you to
the party.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Sooner, so if they're trying to do you a favorite,
But yeah, it's it's a very cool experience. It's a
very very popular event a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You can walk it or run it, so if you
don't want to run, there's there's a walking as well.
But it's fun for all ages and you get credible
views that you can't get any other time.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And if my memory is correct, the after party was huge.
They had a really big space open and had a
lot of entertainment and just a fun time for everyone
at the end.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, it's a very very big event and it's very
well organized so you don't have to stress. You catch
your shuttles and kind of do all that and enjoy
the day. In the after party, I mean it's thousands
of people, you know, it can be upwards of almost
twenty thousand total, so everything is segmented as you walk
and run, you have your art time so that everybody's
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not on there all at once, and it's well organized.
You get the after party, you can hang out and
there's plenty of stuff to do and if your family
doesn't want to do the walk or run, they can
always meet check the after party as well.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That was a cool feature because I did have some
friends that met as at the after party just to
hang out, and I did. I did like that feature
that you could still come be a part of it
even if you didn't really want to run the race.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, they have all that information is on their site
that includes all of that information for the after party
and the and the packet pickups for your running bibs.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So yeah, it's a really good time and it's coming
up quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I heard you mentioned the Chesapeake Water Tours before too.
Is that something that you want to talk about here?
In the previous meeting and you mentioned that, is that
something that you want to bring I thought it was
kind of interesting, so I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, I think so for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Okay, I'll bring that. I'll welcome you in with this
here too. Now I've been reading about the Chesapeake Water Tours.
You've got a new boat that's in your area that's
taking people out on the water and big groups of folks.
If I'm understanding this correctly, tell me more about that.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, So just recently, Chesapeake water Tours open to Kent
Nearrow's location. They're pretty well known. They have other boat
locations throughout the state and in Delaware.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So they've added a cant Nara's.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Location and they've had a soft launch and now they're
fully opened and they typically run from April to October.
Depending on the weather, they can go the season can
go longer. You can book that boat for private tours,
or you can buy tickets and join one of the
tours that's already scheduled. They have a website that makes
everything super easy and it holds forty eight or forty
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nine passengers. So the cool thing about that is you
could have a bus that comes over for a group
tour and you could load your whole bus on the
same boat and go out.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We have plenty of options to get out on the water.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We have a lot of charter boats, headboats, you can
go fishing, you can do cruises. There's something for everybody,
and we have all them listed on our website. Visit
queen Ends dot com.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And water is We talked about this already, but water
is such an important piece of Queen Anne's County and
I think that's the experience that people in particular coming
from the Western Shore at least in my opinion, are
coming for they want that experience of the Bay, of
that of the waterman life, if you will, of the
Eastern Shore, and I think having something like that where
you can fit a good sized group on there and
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really bring people out to experience it is such an
awesome option.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, and it's speaking of waterman.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
The waterman's heritage is so important to us here and
we try to showcase that all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
There's a place where you can.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Currently walk at Harris Crabhouse and behind the restaurant and
they have signs up kind of explaining all that there's
a seafood processing plant there as well.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So that kind of stuff is so important.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And one of the coolest things that you can do
is while you're here and you are eating at one
of those waterfront restaurants, certain times of the day, you
can see the waterman bringing in the food that's going
to be served later that day. So it's literally boats
a table and you can see them come in, it
goes into the seafood processing and then it kind of
goes out to the restaurant. So it's a very cool
experience when you can see all of that kind of
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right in front of you while you're eating.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh yeah, you get to see everything happen. That's awesome. April.
I'm wondering if you can help me. I've been really
trying to nail down an answer to this question because
I just think it's one of those phenomenon. What is
it about outlet malls that makes us all go so crazy?
Because you've got a great one over there in Queen
Anne's County too. I was speaking with somebody from Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
and I was like, why every time I go near
an outlet mall, I have to stop there and I
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don't understand, And yours in Queen Ann's County is always
see so I'm not alone. What is it about out
the mall?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I think it's just that you know you're going to
get such a great deal on something, and it's kind
of like a one stop shop and you just commit
to it, and you've got to hit all the stores
while you're there. Our outlets are accessible from fifty and
three oh one, so it's right on the split, so
it's easy to get to no matter what tray you're traveling,
and there are some great stores showcase there. It's definitely
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worth a stop while you're here.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
The last time my wife and I this will be
where I end with the outlet mall top. But the
last time my wife and I drove over there, we
literally were having a conversation as we're crossing the Bay Bridge,
we don't need anything, don't stop, And then we get
there it's like, well, I mean we could pull over
and we could just see what maybe they have a
new store, and like, I don't know what it is.
There's like an attraction to the out.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You have to stop, and it's and if they don't,
if you're a commitments at not stopping, and you ride
by and you see all the signs as you go by,
you're going to have to make a quick make a
quick turn and get in there. For sure, it's very popular.
Everybody stops there. They have some great, great deals on things,
and there's such a kind of like wide variety of
stores in there that there really is something for everybody.
I know people say that all the time that there
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really is. And you could go on their site and
see a full list of directory there for all their
stores and options.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
All right, April, I was on your website, which is
visit Queen Ann's dot com, and I saw that you
guys have a new travel guide that's available now we do.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
So this year we did something different we've never done before.
We put together a bundle, so we have a standalone
visitor's guide which has everything you need to visit at
the county, but we did a limited run of visitor
guides that are bundled with the Culinary Guide and the
Outdoor Guide, so it gives you a little bit on
all of the culinary things and the outdoor things that
are here. The Culinary goes through some of the history
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of the longest standing restaurants that have been here and
they it's a ton of great information.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's a lot of information about the shore.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Tours tour that we have, and then the outdoor Guide
is interesting because a lot of that is written from
the experts within the county. So there's a birding section
written by birding expert, there's the fishing and boating section
written by one of our charter captains, so we kind
of went that entire direction through the outdoor guide. So
it's a really good read to give you, like some
perspective and story behind some of the things here.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We didn't really talk about birding, but I know that's
had such a huge increase in the last few years. Really,
the pandemic was like a massive, I don't know, jumping
point for birding. People all started getting involved in it.
I guess as they were going outside to do things,
birding became somewhat more popular, and I would imagine Queen
Anna's County is a very popular place to go look
at birds.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Absolutely, yeah, and you're right. During the pandemic, I think
that did. It really got people outdoors a lot, and
I think that's when it's when it really picked up.
So Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center is a great stop. They
have a birds of Prey exhibit that's there as well.
They also do kayak rentals there depending on the temperatures
throughout the season, so that's always a great stop. The
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other good birding spots are Conquest Nature Preserve, Fairy Point
Park you can see some birds here, terrap And Nature
Park which also has great views of the Bay Bridge
if you're interested to see that from the shoreline. There
Metapeak Beach and Y Island Nerma that we talked about earlier,
so that has a lot about bird watching information. But
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if you grab the outdoor Guide that's part of that bundle,
you'll be able to read the story from the birding
expert so they can kind of clue you in and
show you some of the most popular birds to see
here and what people come here to see.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
All right, April, We've talked about a lot a lot
of different things here, So if somebody is getting ready
to plan their trip to Queen Ann's County, let's talk
about where they should go to get this travel guy
where they should go to find out all the information.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Absolutely, So if you're planning a trip, your number one
stop visit queen nds dot com. On there we have
all the information about things to do. We have a
download for our free travel guide that you can get
the bundle while the limited run lasts. It's also on
their digital so you can start looking right away. And
if you're going to plan, if you're thinking of like
a corporate treat or group travel or a larger venue,
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you need a little bit of help putting stuff together
for that, you can always reach out to us.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The contact information as on visit queenands dot com.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Perfect April Plumber Marketing and Destination Development specialists for Queen
Ann's County. It's been a pleasured chatting with you. Queen
Ann's County is a beautiful place and I'm so glad
that we have it right here in our state and
so easily accessible to so many people. Thank you for
your time and hopefully we'll see you over there across
the bridge.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Thank you again to April Plumber for her time. If
you want to find out more information about Queen Ann's
County and start planning your trip, the best place to
go is visit Queenanns dot com. And thank you to
all of you for listening. Until next time, be well,
Hey, what's going on? Everyone? Welcome to Delightful Destinations. My
name is Jeff Saint Pierre. Delightful Destinations is a show
designed to give people an inside or deeper look at
vacation locations around Maryland, the mid Atlantic, and of course
other places as well. My hope is to speak with
people who know these areas inside and out and maybe
inspire you for your next getaway. Through the first ten
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episodes of Delightful Destinations, I've been lucky enough to speak
with a few representatives of counties on what's known as
the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If you're listening to this
podcast and you're not super familiar with the geography of Maryland,
the state is almost kind of split into by the
Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay. Now, both sides of
the state have very different styles. I think the Western
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Shore is what most people recognize of Maryland. You've got Baltimore,
you've got the I ninety five Corridor, the DC area,
et cetera. On the Eastern Shore, it's a little more rural.
You've got beaches, nature, and a whole lot of water activity.
So I'm excited this week to bring you a come
conversation about the beautiful Queen Anne's County. If you're on
the western part of the state and you want to
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go east, you've got across the Bay Bridge, and the
Bay Bridge dumps you right off in Queen Anne's County.
While that initial area is filled with shops, restaurants and activity,
the county really has so much more to offer. Joining
me today is April Plumber. She's the marketing and destination
development specialist for Queen Ann's County. This was a really
great chat. I'll admit to you that I haven't spent
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a lot of time exploring Queen Ann's County. My wife
and I have spent a little time in the Kent
Island area, and of course we've driven through to get
to Ocean City, but that's really about it. I loved
hearing more about what the county has to offer and
the fun opportunities that are going on this fall. I
really hope you enjoy my conversation with April Plumber.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Of course, it's my pleasure. I want to know a
little bit more about you before we dive into your county,
because I think that helps me understand a little bit
more about why you want to sell the county so well, So, April,
tell me more about yourself.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
So, I've been.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Doing marketing for over ten years now, domestic and international.
I used to work in manufacturing actually, so I got
an opportunity to switch over to tourism, which I jumped
at and I've had a blast ever since.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I grew up in Queen Anne's County, I went to
school here, I've lived here my whole life.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
So I think it's really.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Cool to look at it from a different lens and
kind of show up everything that we have from the
county to visitors that come here.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I think it's interesting. And the ten or so interviews
I've done since starting this podcast, everybody but one is
someone that grew up in the place, the state, or
the county that they are representing, And I find that
so fascinating that people can grow up somewhere and just
have this sort of innate love for where they are.
They're like, I want to sell this. I want people
to come see it too.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Yeah, I see that.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
A lot in our whole team that focuses on this
side of our work is the same boat. Our director
born and raised here as well, and loves it, so
I think that really helps us kind of lean into
it and truly kind of show visitors how great it is.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I think there's something too to what you said before
about how you're looking at things in the county through
a different lens. And I think sometimes I was just
visiting some family and we were talking about doing some
touristy things and they were like, yeah, we've never done
that before, and I'm like, that's interesting because I'm coming
from someplace further away and that's what I want to do.
But you live here and it's not interesting to you
at all. So I think it's interesting when you live
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in a place, how you might not be able to
see all the wonderful things that might be around you
because it is your home and you take it for
granted a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It's like getting out on the water, you know, going
out all the time as a kid, and still now
I go out every chance I get on a boat.
But I think it's one of those things that you
absolutely have to do while you're here. It's a must
to get the full Chesteake Bay experience. So it's something
that we don't think about as much because we've always
gone out on the water a lot, but it's our
number one driver for visitors. It's like you have to
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do it. It's a must do while you're here.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
All right, April, you meet somebody in an elevator and
you tell them you work for Queen Ann's County. You're
trying to get people to come by. Give me your
elevator's speech about Queen Ann's County.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
So I always say you have to come, get out
on water and experience the full Chestpeake Bay adventure. I
think that coming over to the Eastern Shore is a
little bit different experience than the rest of Maryland. Although
all it's great and it all has some of the
best things to offer, but I think you get over
it's a little bit more relaxed lifestyle and we're still
close to everything. So my pitch is to always get
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out on the water. Book with a charter, maybe go
fishing or crabbing, or do something fun. Bring your family.
It's family friendly. Our dining is very well known. We
have a good dock and dining set up if you
have a boat. If you don't have a boat, no worries.
You can still eat waterfront and it's true waterfront where
you're actually sitting sometimes on the dock or the deck
directly looking over the water. And then I always tell
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people to outdoor recreation is done best in Queen Ane's County.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We have so many things to do for outdoor recreation.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You can bring everybody, and then we have a full
list of corritors that you can do. So we have
five breweries, two wineries and one distillery. So I think
between all of those things you can really feel like
a week here and stay and enjoy yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Queen Ens County has this huge area of land. You've
got so many different things to offer. You just talking
about the water, but I also feel like it's a
space where like it's the connector between the eastern and
the western shore. So there's a lot of people that
just know it mostly as this is the road that
I'm driving to get to somewhere else. How do you
get people to stop and say, hey, hey, there's more here,
please stop your guard.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Yeah, So that's interesting because we've seen a huge uptick
in a change in that. So it was like that
for a long time, and I think everybody's kind of
slowing down a bit and they'll stop even if they're.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Traveling through typically stop and eat.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I think it's because our restaurants are so well known,
and once they stop once, then they kind of get hooked,
and then realizing that there's so much more to do,
we've started to have people stay here for a night
or two, even if they're traveling through, just.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
To stay and experience it.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And especially if you want to unwind a little bit,
they'll usually visit either Chespeake Bay Environmental centerch we call
Seabeck or Wye Island and they'll height and they'll do
kayak rentals or you know, something to just kind of
unwind a bit. And I think that's where we have
kind of like a niche area as people are traveling through,
and we say it's where shore living begins because it's
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really where you enter the shore.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
So that's our tagline. I think it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Yeah, I've noticed even just the last few years that
a lot of businesses have opened places there along the
route that folks will be driving, and I think it's
giving people another opportunity to maybe, you know, if traffic's
bad or whatever, you stop, you hang out and you
see something else that you might not have seen. I know,
a big truck Farms just opened up a brewery over
there along fifty. I believe you've got some other investments
I've noticed over the years. I think that's great that
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people are bringing in some more activity.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Absolutely, there's plenty of stuff to do as you're driving
along that main corridor, and then if you get off,
there's even more stuff to do, so it's definitely worth
kind of planning in and adding that extra time. We
also have some people like to stay overnight, even if
they're traveling through. That's always a great way to kind
of work in a little bit of relaxing downtime, either
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before after your trip, and then we've had some shift
completely instead of driving through they stay here. Now we've
seen a huge uptick of that in the last couple
of years, so that's been great for.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Us as well.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Aprice saw something Crabs and Crushes, and I feel like
these are two things. I love, crabs and crushes, So
how are these merging together? And tell me more about this.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
So we put together a campaign for that last year
and we've continued running it this year. So Crabs and
Crushes is like the quintessential Eastern Shore experience. It's a
traditional drink, traditional meal, and it's a great combo.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
I can't think of any other better combo.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
So we put together Crabs and crushes and you can
go to Crabs and Crushes dot com to see all
the places that serve these. And it's not just the
standard orange crushes. They have all different flavors. You can
get steam crabs, and if you don't like steam crabs,
you can get something else that has a crab in it,
like crab cake. We have award winning crab cakes, award
winning crab soups, so you can get something crab based
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and then fresh crushes.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So you're an insider me your favorite places. So it's
a bit of a loaded question, I know, but give me,
give me a couple of high Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
So I have a lot of them, but the outdoor
wreck stands out to me. So I think if you're
gonna if you're into golfing, we have great courses here.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
We have Queensland Harbor and we have Blue Heron.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
I think that's like a great thing to do and
it pairs well with something else outdoors, like shooting clays.
So we have the point of pintail that you can
do that I think getting out on a boat is
my number one choice, and just seeing everything by water.
We have two waterfront wineries, so that's always a great choice.
And we also have fiberies and as a stillery as
I mentioned earlier, So I think kind of all of
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that wrapped together, plus adding in the trails, the hiking.
We have a beach, we have restaurants with beach access,
and we have waterfront restaurants. And then if you are
in season, which is typically April to Labor Day, when
you're here, you can go visit at Godfrey's Farm, which
is a new pick farm. So that's a great experience
if you have especially if you have kids with as well.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, kids activities seems to be top of mind for
us these days is where can we go that we
can feel comfortable bringing our child.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
So pretty much everywhere is kid friendly in queeny An'es.
It's pretty laid back everywhere that you go. Our restaurants
are the same. Do you pick Godfrey's You pick is
a great one. But what I typically like to do
when I have my son is Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center.
You can rent kayaks there, you can hike, It's quiet
and they can be as loud as they want because
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they're outside. Why Island Natural Resource Management Area is a
great one.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
There's some really cool trees.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
There's a holly tree there that's almost two hundred and
ninety years old, so that's kind of something neat to see.
So I try to focus like on outdoor activities. Cross
Island Trails South Island Trail are great for kids as well,
but pretty much anywhere outdoors and restaurants, it's all kid friendly,
so they'll have a good time with you as well.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
My wife and I a few years back did like
a Ken Island day or we drove over it is
kind of hung around the area, did some walking along
the nature trails and got food there on one of
the docks. I forget. Is there a restaurant that's like
a Red Eye or something like that.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah, red Eyes Dock Bar, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Yep. We went to red Eyes Dock Bar and we
kind of got a little bit of a Ken Island
experience and it really is a beautiful spot right there
in that particular area of Queen Ann's County.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Yeah. And there's the Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center, Yes, yeah,
so that's always a great stop. Faerry Point Park, is
there so let's the kids take a quick hike if
they want, and you can also fish here. And the
site at Chesapeake Heritage and Visitor Center has been redone,
so it's been raised and the parking lot has been changed,
so this.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Is always a great Stotner's plenty of parking.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I know you got a lot of big events coming
up here as we get into the fall, because I
find that fall. I know a lot of people like
to go over on the Eastern Shore here to enjoy
the water in the summertime, but I love the fall
time all on the Eastern Shore because I just think
the nature is amazing and the temperatures are a little
bit cooler, so you can really get out there and
enjoy some of those things. But you've got some big
events coming up here in the fall. Why don't we
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start with the and I'm gonna say get wrong, Concorde Elegance.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
I agree, the falls the perfect time to visit.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Concourse Day Legance is held at the Kent Island Yacht Club.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
It's a very cool event.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
So that got moved here last year to queen EN's
County's staying in Queen Ann's County and they have some
of the coolest cars that you'll ever get to see.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
It's it's kids kit friendly.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
You can get your tickets in advance and go to
that September twenty seventh through the twenty ninth. So if
you're thinking like antique and vintage rolls, Royces and Bentley's
and really cool cars that you don't get to see
a lot, they're all there. It's a very cool experience.
They'll have food and vendors and a lot of fun
stuff to do. And then our biggest event that we
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have is the Bay Bridge Run, so that is November tenth.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Yeah, you can register.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's a walk run, it's fun for everybody, all ages.
You can register. And then the after party is in
Queenan's County so you can attend that and it's kind
of an all day thing. And then the Waterman's Crab
Basket Tree Lighting is another big event we have, which
is December seventh this year, so from twelve to six
their spenders and this year they are expanding they're going
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to have the bar open as well while you're there.
It's located at Fisherman's Crap Deck and this is ran
by the Watermen's Association of Queenann's County, so this, you know,
is a fundraiser for them. And then at six pm
they Santa COM's and they light the tree.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So that's a that's a fun one too.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
That sounds like a really great time. I got to
go back to the bridge run because I've done that before.
I want to say twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen was
the time that I did it. And I remember we
parked our car over on the like Annapolis side, on
the Western Shore side, and the bus that was driving
us to the starting line missed the exit and took
us all the way across the Bay Bridge. The bus
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drivers like, isn't this the start. We're like, pretty sure
this is the finish. We got to go back. We
gotta get back on the other side. But it was
a really cool experience because I it's just, I don't know,
it's wild to not be in a car or a
vehicle as you're going over the bridge. Like at one
point I thought to myself, boy, these barriers are a
lot lower than I thought they were while I'm running over.
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But it's I don't know, but there's something so special
and magical about that moment.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, it is a very cool experience, and it sounds
like you're Bush Shriver just wanted to get you to
the party.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Sooner, so if they're trying to do you a favorite,
But yeah, it's it's a very cool experience. It's a
very very popular event a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
You can walk it or run it, so if you
don't want to run, there's there's a walking as well.
But it's fun for all ages and you get credible
views that you can't get any other time.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And if my memory is correct, the after party was huge.
They had a really big space open and had a
lot of entertainment and just a fun time for everyone
at the end.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, it's a very very big event and it's very
well organized so you don't have to stress. You catch
your shuttles and kind of do all that and enjoy
the day. In the after party, I mean it's thousands
of people, you know, it can be upwards of almost
twenty thousand total, so everything is segmented as you walk
and run, you have your art time so that everybody's
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not on there all at once, and it's well organized.
You get the after party, you can hang out and
there's plenty of stuff to do and if your family
doesn't want to do the walk or run, they can
always meet check the after party as well.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
That was a cool feature because I did have some
friends that met as at the after party just to
hang out, and I did. I did like that feature
that you could still come be a part of it
even if you didn't really want to run the race.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Yeah, they have all that information is on their site
that includes all of that information for the after party
and the and the packet pickups for your running bibs.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
So yeah, it's a really good time and it's coming
up quickly.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I heard you mentioned the Chesapeake Water Tours before too.
Is that something that you want to talk about here?
In the previous meeting and you mentioned that, is that
something that you want to bring I thought it was
kind of interesting, so I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Yeah, yeah, I think so for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Okay, I'll bring that. I'll welcome you in with this
here too. Now I've been reading about the Chesapeake Water Tours.
You've got a new boat that's in your area that's
taking people out on the water and big groups of folks.
If I'm understanding this correctly, tell me more about that.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Yeah, So just recently, Chesapeake water Tours open to Kent
Nearrow's location. They're pretty well known. They have other boat
locations throughout the state and in Delaware.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
So they've added a cant Nara's.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Location and they've had a soft launch and now they're
fully opened and they typically run from April to October.
Depending on the weather, they can go the season can
go longer. You can book that boat for private tours,
or you can buy tickets and join one of the
tours that's already scheduled. They have a website that makes
everything super easy and it holds forty eight or forty
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nine passengers. So the cool thing about that is you
could have a bus that comes over for a group
tour and you could load your whole bus on the
same boat and go out.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We have plenty of options to get out on the water.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We have a lot of charter boats, headboats, you can
go fishing, you can do cruises. There's something for everybody,
and we have all them listed on our website. Visit
queen Ends dot com.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
And water is We talked about this already, but water
is such an important piece of Queen Anne's County and
I think that's the experience that people in particular coming
from the Western Shore at least in my opinion, are
coming for they want that experience of the Bay, of
that of the waterman life, if you will, of the
Eastern Shore, and I think having something like that where
you can fit a good sized group on there and
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really bring people out to experience it is such an
awesome option.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Yeah, and it's speaking of waterman.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
The waterman's heritage is so important to us here and
we try to showcase that all the time.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
There's a place where you can.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Currently walk at Harris Crabhouse and behind the restaurant and
they have signs up kind of explaining all that there's
a seafood processing plant there as well.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
So that kind of stuff is so important.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
And one of the coolest things that you can do
is while you're here and you are eating at one
of those waterfront restaurants, certain times of the day, you
can see the waterman bringing in the food that's going
to be served later that day. So it's literally boats
a table and you can see them come in, it
goes into the seafood processing and then it kind of
goes out to the restaurant. So it's a very cool
experience when you can see all of that kind of
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right in front of you while you're eating.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Oh yeah, you get to see everything happen. That's awesome. April.
I'm wondering if you can help me. I've been really
trying to nail down an answer to this question because
I just think it's one of those phenomenon. What is
it about outlet malls that makes us all go so crazy?
Because you've got a great one over there in Queen
Anne's County too. I was speaking with somebody from Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
and I was like, why every time I go near
an outlet mall, I have to stop there and I
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don't understand, And yours in Queen Ann's County is always
see so I'm not alone. What is it about out
the mall?
Speaker 3 (17:25):
I think it's just that you know you're going to
get such a great deal on something, and it's kind
of like a one stop shop and you just commit
to it, and you've got to hit all the stores
while you're there. Our outlets are accessible from fifty and
three oh one, so it's right on the split, so
it's easy to get to no matter what tray you're traveling,
and there are some great stores showcase there. It's definitely
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worth a stop while you're here.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
The last time my wife and I this will be
where I end with the outlet mall top. But the
last time my wife and I drove over there, we
literally were having a conversation as we're crossing the Bay Bridge,
we don't need anything, don't stop, And then we get
there it's like, well, I mean we could pull over
and we could just see what maybe they have a
new store, and like, I don't know what it is.
There's like an attraction to the out.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
You have to stop, and it's and if they don't,
if you're a commitments at not stopping, and you ride
by and you see all the signs as you go by,
you're going to have to make a quick make a
quick turn and get in there. For sure, it's very popular.
Everybody stops there. They have some great, great deals on things,
and there's such a kind of like wide variety of
stores in there that there really is something for everybody.
I know people say that all the time that there
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really is. And you could go on their site and
see a full list of directory there for all their
stores and options.
Speaker 1 (18:36):
All right, April, I was on your website, which is
visit Queen Ann's dot com, and I saw that you
guys have a new travel guide that's available now we do.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
So this year we did something different we've never done before.
We put together a bundle, so we have a standalone
visitor's guide which has everything you need to visit at
the county, but we did a limited run of visitor
guides that are bundled with the Culinary Guide and the
Outdoor Guide, so it gives you a little bit on
all of the culinary things and the outdoor things that
are here. The Culinary goes through some of the history
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of the longest standing restaurants that have been here and
they it's a ton of great information.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
It's a lot of information about the shore.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Tours tour that we have, and then the outdoor Guide
is interesting because a lot of that is written from
the experts within the county. So there's a birding section
written by birding expert, there's the fishing and boating section
written by one of our charter captains, so we kind
of went that entire direction through the outdoor guide. So
it's a really good read to give you, like some
perspective and story behind some of the things here.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
We didn't really talk about birding, but I know that's
had such a huge increase in the last few years. Really,
the pandemic was like a massive, I don't know, jumping
point for birding. People all started getting involved in it.
I guess as they were going outside to do things,
birding became somewhat more popular, and I would imagine Queen
Anna's County is a very popular place to go look
at birds.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Absolutely, yeah, and you're right. During the pandemic, I think
that did. It really got people outdoors a lot, and
I think that's when it's when it really picked up.
So Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center is a great stop. They
have a birds of Prey exhibit that's there as well.
They also do kayak rentals there depending on the temperatures
throughout the season, so that's always a great stop. The
(20:12):
other good birding spots are Conquest Nature Preserve, Fairy Point
Park you can see some birds here, terrap And Nature
Park which also has great views of the Bay Bridge
if you're interested to see that from the shoreline. There
Metapeak Beach and Y Island Nerma that we talked about earlier,
so that has a lot about bird watching information. But
(20:33):
if you grab the outdoor Guide that's part of that bundle,
you'll be able to read the story from the birding
expert so they can kind of clue you in and
show you some of the most popular birds to see
here and what people come here to see.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
All right, April, We've talked about a lot a lot
of different things here, So if somebody is getting ready
to plan their trip to Queen Ann's County, let's talk
about where they should go to get this travel guy
where they should go to find out all the information.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Absolutely, So if you're planning a trip, your number one
stop visit queen nds dot com. On there we have
all the information about things to do. We have a
download for our free travel guide that you can get
the bundle while the limited run lasts. It's also on
their digital so you can start looking right away. And
if you're going to plan, if you're thinking of like
a corporate treat or group travel or a larger venue,
(21:18):
you need a little bit of help putting stuff together
for that, you can always reach out to us.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
The contact information as on visit queenands dot com.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Perfect April Plumber Marketing and Destination Development specialists for Queen
Ann's County. It's been a pleasured chatting with you. Queen
Ann's County is a beautiful place and I'm so glad
that we have it right here in our state and
so easily accessible to so many people. Thank you for
your time and hopefully we'll see you over there across
the bridge.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Yeah, really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Thank you again to April Plumber for her time. If
you want to find out more information about Queen Ann's
County and start planning your trip, the best place to
go is visit Queenanns dot com. And thank you to
all of you for listening. Until next time, be well,
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