A dozen people paddled four miles around Banks Lake on Labor Day morning. We saw three trees with bats, and the old one with no bats.

Flyers, bat tree, etc. @ Banks Lake morning paddle 2023-09-04

I forgot the banners, so people are holding up flyers for the WWALS River Revue.

Flyers: WWALS River Revue, 2023-09-22

This is what that flyer looks like:

WWALS River Revue Flyer 2023
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Tickets are available online in advance only:
https://www.betterunite.com/WWALS-wwalsriverrevue2023/

Thanks to Shirley Kokidko for thinking up this paddle and leading it.

Thanks to Kim Tanner for being sweep; she noticed when I wandered off looking for the creek that runs into the Alapaha River.

And thanks to everybody else who came!

Here are a couple of videos:

This is different from the traditional WWALS Banks Lake paddles: it’s not in the evening, it’s not on a full moon, and it’s a different route.

Somebody suggested a sunrise paddle. What do you think of that?

Thanks to Banks Lake Outdoors for free boat rental for these WWALS Banks Lake paddles.

There are more pictures below.

For more WWALS outings and events as they are posted, see the WWALS outings web page, https://wwals.net/outings/. WWALS members also get an upcoming list in the Tannin Times newsletter.

 -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

Before

Getting boats (thanks, Lanier County)

GR

Getting ready

OtW

Heading out

Trio

Kim Tanner, Ayla Jones, Holly Jones

BT1

Shirley finds a bat tree

CT

Shirley making contrails

GM

Cypress and waning gibbous moon

BT2

Bats inside a bat tree

PPPBT

People paddling past a bat tree

BTC

Bat tree composition

GT

Gator trail

AWtD

Ayla walking the lily pad dog

SDD

Shirley, Debbie Phillips, Dan Phillips

FB

Movie: Flock of birds; not buzzards (34M)

SS

Shiny

LoB

Line of boats in the cypress

SWF

Small white flower

OW

Open water

OBT

Old unused bat tree leaning more after Hurricane Idalia

SECBT

Shirley examines the cleft bat tree

FP

Fishing pier

SuwRK

Suwannee Riverkeeper John S. Quarterman

 -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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