Pictures: Banks Lake Full Strawberry Moon –jsq 2023-06-03

Update June 15, 2024: Banks Lake Full Strawberry Moon Paddle 2024-06-21.

Thunder and lightning made quite a display to the south, but never came over Banks Lake, while we paddled out to see the sun set, the bats fly, and the moon rise over the cypress trees.

Plus we saw Mars and Venus.

Banner, boats, storm, bats, Venus, Mars

Thanks to Gee Edwards for leading this Banks Lake Full Strawberry Moon paddle for WWALS, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Thanks to everyone who paddled, and to Banks Lake Outdoors and the Lanier County Commission for providing boats.

There are more pictures below.

See also facebook photosets by

For more WWALS outings and events, see:
https://wwals.net/outings/

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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John Gee Edwards giving the safety lecture –Gretchen Quarterman

Banners

Banners at Banks Lake –Gretchen Quarterman

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Sterile Grass Carp sign

Portrait Sterile Grass Carp sign

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Boats into the water

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Into the cypress trees –Gretchen Quarterman

Movie: Into the cypress trees (69M)

Movie: Leisurely paddle through the cypress trees (37M)

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Cypress and Spanish moss –Gretchen Quarterman

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Brush on tree stob –Gretchen Quarterman

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Movie: Distant rain (11M)

Distant thundercloud

Movie: Rain down Lakeland Avenue (71M)

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Lightning map –Gretchen Quarterman

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Pink cloud and paddlers

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Rain beyond bat tree

Flotilla at bat tree

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Movie: Bats flying –Gee Edwards (2.0M)

Movie: Portrait bats flying with Venus –Gee Edwards (1.9M)

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Moon framed by cypress –Gee Edwards

Moon in the clear –Gee Edwards

Moon and boat lights –Gee Edwards

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Blue sky bat tree –Gee Edwards

Cypress, storm clouds, bat tree –Gee Edwards

Saffron sunset bat tree –Gee Edwards

Reflected bat tree –Gee Edwards

Below the bat tree –Gee Edwards

Color bat tree –Gee Edwards

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Movie: Paddlers around the bat tree (60M)

Movie: Moon visible through cypress (56M)

Moonbats

Movie: Moonrise with bats (71M)

Movie: Bats across the moon (59M)

Movie: Bats as moon clears cypress trees (13M)

Moon rising above cypress trees

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Movie: Bat tattoos (41M)

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Movie: Sunset, bats, moonrise (91M)

Movie: Moon risen in the dark (18M)

OK, not all that dark yet

Closeup risen moon

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Movie: More bats and moonrisen (32M)

Aphrodite

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Portrait Mars, Venus, bat tree

Banks Lake Boat Ramp in the dark

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Moon over Banks Lake Boat Ramp

More boats coming out

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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