This is so strange to me. If I’m on shore and see the canoe fading from sight, I’m calling someone nearby with a power boat to go get them. I wonder if “grandma” had a Whaler or some similar outboard? A house on the water and no motorboat? I’m not understanding the chronology here. Where was hubby? Any other adults?
As told so far this is a bizarre story.
“We were self-quarantining in an empty house owned by Maeve’s mother Kathleen on the Chesapeake Bay, hoping to give our kids more space than we have at home in DC to run around,” he wrote. “Gideon and Maeve were playing kickball by the small, shallow cove behind the house, and one of them kicked the ball into the water. The cove is protected, with much calmer wind and water than in the greater Chesapeake. They got into a canoe, intending simply to retrieve the ball, and somehow got pushed by wind or tide into the open bay. About 30 minutes later they were spotted by an onlooker from land, who saw them far out from shore, and called the police. After that last sighting, they were not seen again. “
Did they ever get the ball? Soccer is a dangerous sport.