Some features were surprising at Dowling Park River Camp, during #PaddleGA2019.
![[From below]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-06-20--dowling-park-river-camp/20190620_163824.jpg)
The bathrooms are on wheels! Continue reading
Tag Archives: Lowndes County
Water Trail signs to Lowndes County Museum 2019-07-30
Don Davis of the Lowndes County Museum had asked for copies of some water trail signs, so today I delivered to him duplicates of the ones for Troupville Boat Ramp:
One of them is about the entire Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail (WLRWT). As befits a museum, this one is actually a prototype, with Continue reading
Spooks of the Bridge, Water Trail Signs, and Porta-Potties: #PaddleGA2019 Day 2 2019-06-16
Spooks! Daredevil dry-land kayaker! Bridge climber! Gnarly jerky and the golf cart! Also the Withlacoochee River at Spook Bridge, Knight’s Ferry Boat Ramp, Nankin Boat Ramp, each with road and kiosk signs for the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail, plus briefly Port-A-Potties at all those places and halfway back up towards Troupville Boat Ramp, and a gopher tortoise, all during Day 2 of #PaddleGA2019.
![[Joe Cook and Harold Harbert]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-06-16--paddle-ga-day-2/20190616_094032.jpg)
There were boats. Continue reading
Mt. Zion Methodist Church Spring and road 2019-06-16
A rare spring in Lowndes County, Georgia. Passing by during #PaddleGA2019, I took these pictures.
Continue reading![[Reflections]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-06-16--mt-zion-methodist-church-spring/20190616_112644.jpg)
Franklinville Landing Clean Up, Withlacoochee River, 2019-08-03
Update 2019-07-24: Free to everyone!
Come help WWALS clean up at Franklinville Landing at Tyler Bridge on Franklinville Road on the Withlacoochee River, and on adjoining private land, courtesy of the landowner. Per our usual arrangement, Lowndes County Public Works will come get the trash after we bag it and set it on the public road right of way. We will also visit the nearby monument to Franklinville, which was the county seat of Lowndes County before Valdosta and before Troupville.
When: 9 AM, Saturday, August 3, 2019
Gather at:
Franklinville Landing, 6560 Franklinville Road, Hahira, GA 31632. in Lowndes County.
Be sure to get to Franklinville Road from the west, from Skipper Bridge Road; you can’t get to the clean up site from Cat Creek Road.
From Valdosta, go north on N. Oak Street Extension, which becomes Cherry Creek Road and then Staten Road. After you cross the Withlacoochee River on Staten Road, turn right on the next paved road, which is McMillan Road. Turn left onto Skipper Bridge Road. After 2.4 miles, turn right onto Franklinville Road, which is a dirt road. Continue to Tyler Bridge, which is closed, so you can’t miss it because you can’t go any further.
From Hahira, go east on GA 122, after 4.2 miles turn right onto Skipper Bridge Road, and after 0.9 miles turn left onto dirt Franklinville Road.
Take Out: Same.
Bring: Cleanup materials will be provided, but if you’ve got a trash picker, bring it along. No boat required, although you can bring one to paddle up and down if you want to.
Free: This outing is free to WWALS members, and $10 (ten dollars) for non-members everyone!
We recommend you support the work of WWALS by
becoming a WWALS member today!
For those interested, afterwards go to Langdale Park Boat Ramp for an additional cleanup. That is downstream on the Withlacoochee River, also on the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
![[Downstream from bridge, 13:38:58, 30.981386, -83.267655]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2018-02-11--hagan-bridge-franklinville/20180211_133858.jpg)
Downstream from bridge, 13:38:58,,
2018-02-11
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Waste not, want not -John S. Quarterman, VDT 2019-07-14
Some of what I said:
Much of what Quarterman and the watershed coalition does is educate people who use the Floridan aquifer, he said.
It’s important to get people out on the water to show them the importance of the natural resource, but since most of the drinking water is more than 400 feet below them, it’s hard to make people appreciate the resource, he said.
“We want to be careful about using up the aquifer,” Quarterman said. “The water level goes down each year, and each year we have to dig deeper to get to the water.”
![[VDT Front page, Sunday, July 14, 2019]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-07-14--vdt-water/front-page.jpg)
Front page, Sunday, July 14, 2019, Valdosta Daily Times
Some of you may recognize the picture, which shows the boom Sabal Trail put in the Withlacoochee River west of Valdosta after their pilot hole leaked drilling fluid up into the river.
Thomas Lynn, Valdosta Daily Times, 14 July 2019, Waste not, want not: Water preservation not a priority,
VALDOSTA — Water is a finite resource. Continue reading
Air Force Accidentally Bombs Florida –People.com; Happy Fourth of July!
Maybe Moody AFB forgot the bombs were supposed to burst in air, and the pyrotechnics were meant as Fourth of July fireworks.
A BDU-33, U.S. AIR FORCE PHOTO BY AIRMAN 1ST CLASS EUGENE OLIVER
“There is a safety investigation that is ongoing to see what caused it,” an air base spokesperson tells PEOPLE. “We’re also trying to look into any lessons that we can learn from it and mitigate the situation to prevent it from happening in the future.”
The spokesperson says the investigation’s results will be released after it is finished.
That’s according to Char Adams, People.com, 3 July 2019, Air Force Accidentally Bombs Florida in Botched Training Exercise Continue reading
Moody dummy bomb report from Suwannee Springs –WCTV 2019-07-02
Will Moody AFB find the dummy bombs an A-10C Warthog dropped near Suwannee Springs the other day?
![[Sometimes they do and sometimes they don't]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-07-02--wctv-moody/2019-07-03-17:54:32--ss.jpg)
Sometimes they do and sometimes they don’t
Moody AFB said sometimes they search for them, and sometimes they don’t, depending on an ongoing safety examination.
![[Location Map]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-07-02--wctv-moody/2019-07-03-17:50:50--ss.jpg)
That is as reported by Emma Wheeler, WCTV, 2 July 2019, Moody jet hits bird, drops 3 dummy bombs over N. Florida.
She also interviewed me.
What else is in it? What are the pyrotechnics? What kind of environmental damage could it cause? We don’t really know. We’d like to know.
Continue reading
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Doesn’t encourage people to get on the rivers
Dummy bombs dropped by Moody AFB near Suwannee Springs 2019-07-01
If you see this, don’t pick it up, call 229-257-4146 (Moody AFB), or 911.
![[BDU-33, 22.5 inches long, blue, 25 pounds, do not handle]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2019-07-01--moody-afb-bomb/bdu-33.jpg)
Photo: Moody AFB: “The BDU-33 is a 25-pound training munition used to simulate the M1a-82 500-pound bomb. It is approximately 22 and a half inches long and is blue in color. Although the training munition is inert, it is equipped with a small pyrotechnic charge and should not be handled.”
One of those A-10 Warthogs we see flying overhead all the time dropped three of those dummy bombs yesterday, at a location that sounds very near Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park. Just as well this didn’t happen last week while we had 300 people paddling on the Suwannee River downstream.
Moody A-10 dropped object reported, By 23d Wing Public Affairs , 23d Wing Public Affairs / Published July 01, 2019. Continue reading
Kayak Raffle drawing at WWALS Annual Member Meeting 2019-07-14
Draft Agenda
WWALS Annual Member Meeting
2:00-2:30 PM, Sunday, 14 July 2019, followed by the WWALS Quarterly Board Meeting
South Georgia Regional Library,
2906 Julia Dr, Valdosta, GA 31602Dial-in Number: (712) 770-5505
Meeting ID: 855-676
facebook eventPresentation of annual report, election of board members and selection of kayak raffle winner!
The Hobie Mirage Outback raffle kayak, donated by Dr. Tom Phillips.WWALS members can vote in this annual meeting, and the public is invited to observe.
Board members are listed in www.wwals.net/board.