Meet and Greet at Banks Lake 2025-08-09 | WWALS Watershed Coalition (WWALS) is Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

Join WWALS Watershed Coalition for a casual Meet and Greet at beautiful Banks Lake before our popular Full Moon Paddle! This is a great chance to meet WWALS members, chat about upcoming outings and advocacy work, and enjoy the evening air by the lake.

When: 6 PM to 9:30 PM, Saturday, August 9, 2025

Put In: Banks Lake Boat Ramp, 307 Georgia 122, Lakeland, GA 31635, in Lanier County, on the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT).

GPS: 31.034824, -83.096725

Meet and Greet at Banks Lake, 6 PM, Saturday, August 9, 2025, Bring a chair, snacks; drinks; Paddle later or just sit and chat

What to Bring:

A lawn chair
Finger foods to share (think picnic-style)
Your own drinks – We have no fresh water access
Bug spray
Pets are welcome on a leash

We’ll gather at 6:00 PM near the boat ramp area to relax, snack, and get to know each other.

At 7:30 PM, paddlers will launch for the Full Sturgeon Moon Paddle.
https://wwals.net/?p=67607

You’re welcome to stay on shore and socialize or join us on the water. Either way, we’ll wrap up when the paddle ends around 9:30 PM.

Come out and connect with your watershed community!

Questions? Contact Kim Tanner or Janet Martin, WWALS Outings Committee Co-Chairs.

Free: This outing is free to WWALS members, and $10 (ten dollars) for non-members. Please prepay the $10 online:
https://wwals.net/outings
Or bring cash to the outing. Credit card payments may or may not be available.

We recommend you support the work of WWALS by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/4472980732929447/
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Duration: 3.5 hours

Paddle: None.

Shuttle: None.

Host: Janet Martin

Contact: Janet Martin

Before: We did this once before, eight years ago:
https://wwals.net/?p=35263

Backup: in case of bad weather or high or low water is: Cancel

More: 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