NAJAM, J.
In 1969, Cecil and Susan Salyer (“the Salyer parents”) purchased a parcel of property on the north side of C.R. 850. That parcel is not part of the Subdivision but is located across C.R. 850 from Lots 10 and 17. The Salyer parents and their family routinely accessed Yellow Creek Lake via a path down the center of the Drive, and, by 1972, they had installed a pier (“the Salyer pier”) in Yellow Creek Lake where the Drive meets the lake. Pier posts were installed on the shore, and the pier rested on cement blocks on the shore. From 1972 to May 2008, the Salyer parents and their family maintained the pier in that location and moored a boat on one or both sides of the pier.
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Again, “[t]he term ‘riparian rights’ indicates a bundle of rights that turn on the physical relationship of a body of water to the land abutting it.” Water and Water Rights § 6.01(a) at 6-7. Here, the Salyers have no fee simple interest in any real property abutting Yellow Creek Lake. And, as we have determined above, they have not established a prescriptive easement within the Drive that connected C.R. 850 and Yellow Creek Lake. The Salyers have not cited and we have not found any precedent holding that one may acquire riparian rights by prescription where the claimant has no property interest in the land abutting the riparian area. Thus, on the facts presented, we conclude that the Salyers have not established a prescriptive easement in the riparian area defined in the trial court’s judgment.
FRIEDLANDER, J., and BRADFORD, J., concur.