Edwards Creek

The Tree on Edwards Creek

The Tree and the Boat on Edwards Creek

The Boat on Edwards Creek

House on Edwards Creek

Who here is tired of hearing me say Edwards Creek?

CBW put your hand down.

These were all taken from Edwards Creek the public landing over on Edwards Creek Gwynn's Island.  Many stories from my youth involve this particular landing, one of which has to do with driving on this dock, which at the time was not only perfectly acceptable but quite legal, surprisingly.

Another story, however, involves a practice which may have been perfectly acceptable among my peers, but was no doubt pushing the limits of what was actually legal.

Once upon a time, late one summer evening, Chesapeake Bay Teenager, her Middle Sister and some mutual acquaintances drove over to the island and up onto this public landing on Edwards Creek in case I haven't said it enough already.  For those who don't know, not only is a public landing a dock that anyone can visit, it's also a dock that most anyone can tie up to, within reason.

I mean they're not going to allow the QE 2 to pull up there and disembark passengers, but mostly that's because the QE 2 draws just a tad more water than can be found in Edwards Creek.  Oops.  I said it again.

Anyway, my point is there are usually boats tied up to this public landing.  Boats whose owners are usually elsewhere, as in nowhere near the public landing.

It's really tempting easy to climb aboard these owner-less boats which are tied up to this very public landing.

It's even easier to slip the rope off the pole and push off for a spell.

It's even more fun to do this with a bunch of silly, giggly, teenaged friends.

We're not talking about any great big boat or anything, this was just your average rowboat.  I'm sure if the owner were there and we had asked, he would have said I don't think so, not in this lifetime sure, help yourself.  It just so happens he wasn't there to ask.

So we took a spin around That Creek and returned it safely to the dock afterwards.

And to this day Chesapeake Bay Woman feels guilty about it.

The End.

p.s. She also feels guilty about some similar sorts of antics involving yachts tied up at the Islander, but that's a story for another day, even though no yachts were harmed in that story either. 


p.s.s.t.  CBW is proud to announce she is now a law-abiding citizen who may be an accidental trespasser with good intentions but most definitely is not someone who would temporarily steal borrow a boat without asking.  She also does not condone the behavior above and if she ever found out her own children did such a thing there'd be a time goin' on.  


Also, if CB Mother is reading, I blame Middle Sister, who may or may not have actually even been a participant in the Edwards Creek Boat Caper--but I think she was, and it's my job as older sister to cast the blame there, in the middle.