Pictures: Banks Lake Full Moon Paddle 2017-07-08 | WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS) is Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

Lights! Full Moon! Paint! Rice and watermelon! Fun was had by all last Saturday on the WWALS watery living room, Banks Lake, just west of Lakeland, GA on GA 122.

Only saw one gator, and he got scared away by all the boats. Didn’t see any moccassins, but I bet they were there in the lily pads on the west side across the lake, where we turned back.

Paddlers with WWALS and Suwannee Riverkeeper Banners, 31.0351925, -83.0965187

The total I think was seventeen paddlers in sixteen boats, some not pictured here due to not arrived yet, or something.

Movie: Tom Cramer and his wife Barb are the volunteers at Banks Lake Outdoors (26M)

They stayed open for us.

Movie: Shirley from Pearson enjoys the monthly paddles with WWALS (20M)

With Gretchen munching in the background.

Paddling Banks Lake with lights at dusk 31.0344000, -83.0976938

Full moon cypress, Banks Lake 31.0226795, -83.1122524

Here there be venemous serpents: lily pads at west edge of Banks Lake 31.0226885, -83.1122279

We didn’t actually see any snakes, but nobody wanted to go in to find out.

A flotilla 31.0226395, -83.1122501

Cypress eclipsing full moon 31.0383812, -83.0789188

Julie Bowland painted these in her canoe on the lake 31.0351925, -83.0965187

Movie: Scotti Jay from Kayak Club of Valdosta and Sara Squires from Valdosta came to paddle (38M)

I think this is the best picture, in which Scotti Jay wins a photo contest I didn’t even know we were having.

More pictures

More pictures below. These pictures will also appear on facebook approximately tomorrow. Some of the pictures say “Movie:” and some of the movies will be posted on the WWALS YouTube channel.

See also facebook albums by Phil Hubbard, Julie Bowland, and Gretchen Quarterman.

Also there is a Google map at the end of this blog post.

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

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