Description: Lake Joyce is a unique recreational paradise in the heart of the Virginia Beach Bayfront Communities.
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Lake Joyce is an 85 acre fresh water lake adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay and the Lynnhaven River. All watersports are enjoyed on this lake, from a quiet paddle to Leaping Lizard Cafe for lunch, to water skiing in the designated lanes, to kayaking around Blackbeards Island. There is no public access to Lake Joyce. The neighborhoods with private access are Chic's Beach, Baylake Pines/Baylake Beach, and Bayville at Lake Joyce. Find your lakefront home in these neighborhoods here and put Windy Crutchfield's Sea
History of Lake Joyce:
Lake Joyce used to be an inlet connecting Pleasure House Creek with the Chesapeake Bay (see today's brackish pond between Baylake and Indian Hill Rds). This is where Blackbeard raises his nasty head in the early 1700s. Edward Teach and his crew supposedly cut a 500' long and 25' wide channel in the land, pushing the dirt up into what is known today as Treasure Island, a hilly island inside Lake Joyce. Blackbeard built a fort on this island which allowed the pirates to have a Lookout for merchant ships passi