Nevermind what googlemaps says, the lake on Cherry Lake below Cherry Lake Road is Lake Cleve:
![[Marker: Lake Cleve]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/1964-01-01--lake-cleve-cherry-creek/30652518_2039473256068010_4586079316034453504_n.jpg)
Marker: Lake Cleve.
Named for Cleve B. Watson, Jr.
Photo: Scotti Jay
Thanks to Scotti Jay for finding the evidence, which reads: Continue reading
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Ockolocoochee, Little River 1889-01-29
Update 2023-12-28: Revised version..
Who knows the Ockolocoochee River? No, not the Ochlockonee River; that’s a bit to the west. You do know the Ockolocoochee River as the Little River, of the Withlacoochee, of the Suwannee. Here is news from 1889 that also includes the boat that didn’t survive from Troupville to Ellaville, which was apparently not a paddlewheel steamer.
Irwin County, 1885a, GeorgiaInfo, Rand McNally Map of Georgia, 1885
Atlanta Constitution, January 29, 1889, Pg 12., quoted in Ray City History Blog, 18 October 2010, More About Troupville, GA and the Withlacoochee River,
THE WITHLACOOCHEE RIVER.
VALDOSTA, Ga., January 19. -[Special.]- Away up near the northern limit of the great wiregrass section there is a big cypress swamp. They call them bays there. From this bay emerges Continue reading
Sabal Trail low gas 2017-12-02
Not just one week anymore, more than two weeks: for seventeen days or more than half a month Sabal Trail shipped no gas, and it’s at less than ten percent of its stated operational capacity today.
Sabal Trail Operationally Available and Nominated Capacity, 2017-06-14 to 2017-12-02, graphed by WWALS from Sabal Trail’s FERC-required online reports.
Also, on October 30th Sabal Trail went down to 14 Million Dekatherms a day (MDTH/day) nominated capacity out of 779 MDTH/day operationally available capacity.
Both that and the drop to zero on December November 14th were shortly after Sabal Trail
ramped up nominated capacity.
Did you bust something, Sabal Trail? Continue reading
Cherry Creek and Grand Bay Creek
Does Cherry Creek come from Grand Bay? This question came up about Valdosta’s Cherry Creek Lift Station Spill. No, but you weren’t alone if you didn’t know that.
Cherry Creek (lower left) and Grand Bay Creek (right)
Cherry Creek runs into the Withlacoochee River, and comes from very near Grand Bay, but not Continue reading
Pictures: Banks Lake Full Moon Paddle 2017-07-08
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)
Continue readingBanks Lake Full Moon Paddle 2017-07-08
Bring bon-bons, lights, and boats to paddle the moonlit mysteries of our own mini-Okefenokee: Banks Lake, as the sun sets between Lakeland, GA and I-75.
Bring something somewhat more substantial
and we will have a brief pot-luck at the gazebo before paddling.
No cooking at the site.
When: 8PM Saturday, July 8, 2017
Where:
Banks Lake Boat Ramp,
1099 W Main St. (GA 122), Lakeland, GA 31635.
Or: 307 Georgia 122, Lakeland, GA 31635, Lanier County
GPS: 31.03492, -83.09619
Duration: Continue reading
Banks Lake daybreak
WMA check-in hunt does not count towards Georgia bag limit
A hunter asked about bag limits at
the new
Alapaha River Wildlife Management Area (WMA)
on the Alapaha River in Irwin County betweeen Tifton and Ocilla.
It depends on whether you sign in or you check in.
The answer is not in the approved hunting season dates for the Alapaha WMA, found in other Alapaha WMA information. That’s because it’s in the general July 2016-June 2017 hunting regulations for Georgia. On page 34, note the phrase at the end of “Check-In Hunt” that I’ve emphasized below: Continue reading
Deserter Lake in Alapaha Wildlife Management Area
Update 2016-10-20: WMA check-in hunt does not count towards Georgia bag limit.
WWALS member Patrick Kunes took this video of
Deserter Lake in
Irwin County on the Alapaha River in
the new
Alapaha River Wildlife Management Area (WMA)
on the Alapaha River betweeen Tifton and Ocilla.
You can hear him talking about turkeys he saw, and you can
see the lake on the river.
He mentions deadfalls, which are a common feature on the upper Alapaha River.
The river itself is not really boatable up that far much of the year,
but lakes like this one often still have water.
Many such lakes do not have public access, but Deserter Lake does now.
This lake is upstream from the formal start of the Alapaha River Water Trail (ARWT), but we’ve included it in the online material about the ARWT because Deserter Lake is in the new Alapaha WMA.
Patrick wrote about this video: Continue reading
Nell Patten Roquemore to be honored tonight in Valdosta by Scouts 2016-09 -20
A chance to see a living legend from Lakeland honored tonight in Valdosta.
Dean Poling, VDT, 18 September 2016,
Scouts honor Roquemore
VALDOSTA — Nell Patten Roquemore has written two books on Lakeland and Lanier County history.
She spearheaded the project of murals being located throughout her native Lakeland.
And Roquemore has been designated as the first woman to receive the prestigious Distinguished Citizen’s Award given by the Boy Scouts of America South Georgia Council.
Former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue is scheduled to speak in her honor Tuesday during the award banquet, according to organizers.
“I am thrilled to be the first woman chosen and I am truly honored by the selection,” Roquemore said in a statement. “There is no finer Continue reading