Daily Archives: October 30, 2019

Winners: WWALS Boomerang 2019-10-26

Update 2019-11-13: Pictures of the Final Finishers.

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Hahira, Georgia, October 30, 2019 — Twice the paddlers this year participated in the Second Annual WWALS Boomerang Paddle Race into Florida and back to Georgia. That’s two dozen paddlers and about fifty people last Saturday at State Line Boat Ramp on the Withlacoochee River.

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Winner: Russell McBride

“Paddlers from 3 to 69 years old included five parent-child tandems, and three solo children. All were led by overall winner and first male paddler Russell McBride, of Quitman, Brooks County, Georgia, in a solo kayak, and first female paddler Jennifer James of Waldo, Alachua County, Florida, on a stand up paddle board,” reported Boomerang mastermind Bobby McKenzie.

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Winning in categories were Continue reading

Chesser Island Road Landfill 2019-10-05

Seen from the east edge of the Okefenokee Swamp, Waste Management’s Chesser Island Road Landfill.

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Closeup, Landfill, Chesser Island Road, 30.6927430, -82.0763770
Photo: John S. Quarterman for WWALS on Southwings flight, pilot Allen Nodorft, 2019-10-05.

This landfill is off of GA 23 south of Folkston, GA, in Charlton County, and is well known for accepting Continue reading