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By Beth Gall
Rappahannock News
Contributing Writer
At 6 p.m. on Sept. 17 and 18, RCHS students and two chaperones loaded bags and pillows, clothes and coolers on a school bus in the dark. We were headed for the tiny town of Tylerton on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay and it was, for most, the experience of a lifetime.
The environmental science class, composed of 10th, H„h and 12th graders, went to Smith Island to experience first hand the environmental problems associated with the Bay, some of which could originate in Rappahannock County. ** After a four-hour bus ride and a 45-minute ferry ride from Smith Point Marina, we arrived in Tylerton, enthusiastically greeted by Chesapeake Bay Foundation staff members, Ken, Matt and Captain Denny. We unloaded out things and quickly settled into the CBF study center facility consisting of two beautiful waterfront houses. The girls moved into the Bay House, with three bedrooms each sleeping from six to eight, a large kitchen and dining area and a living room. The boys moved into the Mullins House which had a small kitchen, two bedrooms sleeping six to eight,a living room complete with fish tanks and a large painting of the Chesapeake Bay watershed on the floor, all 64,000 acres of it! - After unpacking, meeting for introductions, instructions, rules and a general “getting psyched,” we headed for the canoes. Students donned life jackets and we were off on a tour of lyierton — from the water. Tb say the community of Tylerton is unique is and understatement. With a population of 70, the roads have no cars traveling on them, only bicycles and golf carts. There are no police, no doctors or nurses, no governing body other than the church council, no schools, one post office and
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