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Historic forts, picnics, and herons on Pea Patch Island

Pea Patch Island is a small island on the Delaware river in between Delaware City, Delaware and Finns Point, New Jersey. Given it's position at the entrance of Delaware Bay, the island was once a strategic military stronghold and famously served as a prison for Confederate soldiers captures after the Battle of Gettysburg in nearby Pennsylvania.

Today, it's home to the Fort Delaware State Park and a major stopping point for migratory birds. To get there, you need to catch a ferry at Delaware City. The ferry trip doesn't take all that long (the whole trajectory is less than a mile long) and costs $11 for adults and $6 for children.

Many people head to Pea Patch island to check out the 19th-century Fort Delaware complex, but the island itself also makes for a nice visit. You can see large flocks of heron (the largest in the US outside of Florida), egrets, and ibis and there are facilities set up for picnics and barbecues. I'd suggest bringing a cooler of food and drinks to have a nice early lunch in the fresh air before heading out to explore the fort and its cannons, do one of the nature trails on the island (there are signs indicating where they begin and end) and checking out the large colonies of birds.
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