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- Outings spreadsheet of upcoming outings and events scheduled so far
- Social media and other ways to help you find outings and events
- Boat rental
- Chainsaw Cleanups
- Enable location (GPS) on your phone
- Sign-in sheet (event waiver)
- Some paddles to try and water trails for where to paddle
- How you can help
WWALS holds at least one paddle outing a month, plus frequent cleanups, and occasional hikes. For non-members, the outings fee is $10 per person, or $11 online:
Most outings are free to WWALS members. You can become a member by paying at an outing, or online:
Boat Rental
There are many outfitters who are happy to rent you a boat and deliver you to your paddle.
For WWALS some outings, WWALS offers free boat rental. (Mostly the Full Moon paddles at Banks Lake, courtesy of the Lakeland-Lanier Chamber of Commerce and Banks Lake Outdoors.) Look at the announcement of such an outing for how to get eventbrite tickets for boat reservations.
Chainsaw Cleanups
A WWALS specialty is chainsaw cleanups: clearing dead trees from across rivers and creeks, with chainsaws in boats.
See separate web page:
https://wwals.net/outings/chainsaw-cleanups/
Enable location (GPS) on your phone
If you enable location services for your phone camera, it will record GPS for each picture.
- For iphone:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102647
or
https://www.alphr.com/iphone-pictures-location-data/ - For android: open the phone, tap the gear for settings, and turn on Location tags.
- For most any other device: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/9921876
Event Waiver (sign-in sheet)
At each outing each participant must sign an event waiver (sign-in sheet) so our WWALS insurance will apply.
If you want to see it in advance, follow this link.
The leader of that outing will have a sign-in sheet including the waiver. There’s also a pet waiver on the back.
The leader should also have copies of the WWALS FAQ and membership form.
How to find upcoming paddle outings and other events
- in the outings spreadsheet (see below),
- in WWALS facebook events,
- in WWALS meetups,
- as well as in the monthly WWALS membership newsletter, Tannin Times.
Try paddles, and water trails
If you’re new to the Suwannee River Basin and want to try a few paddles with your own small group, see Ideas for short paddles. We do not recommend going alone, and we do recommend paddling with WWALS.
How far from one Boat Ramp to the next landing? WWALS Water Trails.
You can help
For more about how you can participate in WWALS outings, programs, events, and advocacy, see:
https://wwals.net/donations/
Outings are organized by the Outings Committee; maybe you’d like to join them.
Outings Spreadsheet
Below is a spreadsheet of WWALS outings and events, plus a few by other organizations. This spreadsheet is updated frequently. Acronyms are explained below the spreadsheet.
See it in its native google sheets form, and presented in web form below.
Blueway acronyms include:
- ARWT for Alapaha River Water Trail
- WLRWT (or WRWT) for Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail
- SRWT for Suwannee River Water Trail
- OWACT for Okefenokee Wilderness Area Canoe Trails
- ORWT for our neighbor, the Ocholockonee River Water Trail
- SatillaRWT for our neighbor, the Satilla River Water Trail.
Try to make the Put In and Take Out names match the names in the appropriate water trail spreadsheet.