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Home port: Tall Timbers,
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We discovered Tall Timbers by accident.
We were cruising down the river from Washington to the Chesapeake
in our first boat, a little Columbia named Carnation.
We had spent the night at anchor in Breton Bay, and the next
day we hoped to reach the St. Mary's River. But m the afternoon,
when we saw a big summer storm building, we decided to look for
cover. According to William Shellenberger's Gunkholer's Guide
to the Chesapeake Bay there was jettied entrance to Herring
Creek on the Maryland side, but we couldn't see it. The lower
Potomac is miles wide, the land is low, and it was hazy with
heat and humidity. When thunder and lightning started, we gave
Shellenberger the benefit of the doubt and headed in. |
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Tall Timbers is small harbor, |
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but easy to spot from a satellite |
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Tall Timbers Marina is right inside the entrance
of Herring Creek. I'd like to say that we went in, stayed and
never left, but in fact we sailed on to the Chesapeake as soon
as the weather cleared. We kept the boat in the Annapolis area
for two years. Then we got tired of the crowds and sailed back.
This was not smart. It takes two hours to drive from our house
to the boat. We gained, however, a long and usually deserted
sandy beach, instant access to miles and miles of open water
where you can come about without ever having to worry about bumping
into somebody else; and a sense of a different, and often wonderfully
strange way of life that seems much further than two hours away
from the city.
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At left is an old photograph of
Tall Timbers Marina. Not much has changed, which is why we like
it there. At top right are the beach and the river; at top left
the timbers. To the right is a wilderness area with a beach where
our son Nico camped out with his friends to celebrate his birthday
when he was in 6th grade. They crossed the creek in a canoe.
At bottom right is Charlotte Island, so named by our daughter
Jana who took her friend Charlotte there in the dinghy. They
were nine at he time. |
| Tall Timbers Marina
- Herring Creek Road |
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Tall Timbers, MD 20690 -
phone: (301) 994.1508 |
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