In April, 1607 three small ships - the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery - found a safe harbor at Cape Comfort near the entrance to the great Chesapeake Bay.

The English colonists aboard reveled in the beauty of the unspoiled land and enjoyed "fine and beautiful strawberries" and a "good store of mussels and oysters."

These Englishmen went on to establish a settlement at nearby Jamestown. . . but not before they savored the bounty of Phoebus and - after a winter crossing of the Atlantic Ocean - the shelter of our harbor.    Read more »