Chris Templin remembers taking trips to Little Tinicum Island with friends and family, in motor boats and rowboats, throughout her life. In this compilation of her musings on a recent trip to the island, Chris talks about the island's... View File Record
Little Tinicum Island is a long thin island offshore of Essington in the Delaware River. The island's marshy vegetation and tidal mud flats give testimony to Tinicum Township's environmental past. Though no permanent structures have been built on the small island, it has still been subject to human modification, namely as a locale to deposit material dredged from the Delaware. Between natural and artificial depositions and flooding during storms, the island's shape and size has been relatively unstable.
