Bring bon-bons, lights, and boats to
Banks Lake, just west of Lakeland, Georgia,
7PM Saturday
August 29th 2015
for the first WWALS Moonlight Paddle and Bon-Bon Eating Contest. Your host, Chris Mericle, has arranged a special after-hours permit for this outing. Join us at
Banks Lake Outdoors,
1099 W Main St.,
Lakeland, GA 31635.
This is part of our continuing exploration of the Alapaha River Water Trail. Printable PDF flyer. facebook event.
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Expedition leader Chris Mericle reports he’s gotten the Suwannee River State Park vehicle entrance fees waived for this weekend’s outing, plus a permit
…to view a unique closed area of the park called “5 Holes”. 5 Holes is a series of karst windows leading to a spring. When the water level is right you can walk through a semi-cavern from the river up the spring run to the spring.
So meet us 8AM tomorrow morning, Saturday, August 15h, 2015 at Gibson Park!
James Garrett posted some Continue reading
Sunday the Membership Committee sent this message to WWALS members:
Hello WWALS Members,
It’s been a busy month here in South Georgia and North Florida. This newsletter has updates on our Waterkeeper® Affiliate area, educational events, outings and water trails. Looking forward to Continue reading
Update 2015-08-14: Now plus Five Holes caves at Suwannee River State Park!
This flag marks where Sabal Trail plans to drill under the Suwannee River,
pictured today by Chris Mericle, who also pictured
a number spraypainted on a tree and remarked:
I know it is a small thing but, it is this lack of respect for nature that we will be forced to endure if this pipeline is permitted.
With FL DEP proposing to issue a permit for Sabal Trail, let’s go investigate, and have some fun at the same time.
First we’ll look at the
Alapaha Rise, which is where some of the water that disappears from the Alapaha River at its
sinks comes back up out of the Floridan Aquifer.
To get to the Rise we paddle upstream on the Suwannee River,
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Update 2022-07-20: Better picture labels and access.
Update 2015-10-29: Pictures: Sullivan Launch to Madison Blue Spring Withlacoochee River 2015-10-24.
Downstream on our tea-colored Withlacoochee River to the Blue Spring, it’s the October WWALS Outing!
When: 9AM Saturday October 24th 2015
Where: Sullivan Launch to Madison Blue Springs State Park.
Distance: 10.2 miles, about 5 hours, after a shuttle of about 40 minutes.
Facebook: event.
This outing is Free! But we encourage you to join WWALS today to support our fun outings and important work: /donations/. See our newsletters, and the press Releases and news. And consider joining the new Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail Committee.
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It’s the annual WWALS Adopt-A-Stream cleanup, this time at GA 135
on the
Atkinson County side of the Alapaha River, plus if there’s time, the
Berrien County side.
When: 9AM Saturday September 26th 2015
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It was a nice day with current on the Alapaha River from
Statenville to Sasser Landing 15 February 2015,
with a side trip up the Alapahoochee River to the famous Turket Creek Waterfall.
This morning WWALS continues
from Sasser Landing to Jennings Bluff,
plus a walk up the Dead River to the sink where the Alapaha River goes underground. Continue reading
Boating on our rivers and water trails for them,
issues and education: 
you can help with the fun and work of WWALS!
Here’s much of what can be done laid out in a list of a dozen WWALS Goals for 2015.
The board has at least one opening right now,
and the committees always could use more members. You can apply through the online form.
See also the monthly newsletter, the news about WWALS, and of course the website with blog, facebook the page and group, and WWALS on twitter, Youtube, and the membership google group. You can become a member or corporate sponsor of WWALS online right now.
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Sunny with a light breeze, not too hot, not too cold,
water low and a bit slow, but a fine time was had by all,
at the
BIG Little River Paddle Race Saturday 16 May 2015 in Reed Bingham State Park.
Well, Dwight Griner did clock in slower than the previous two years,
but the low water probably caused that, and he still won again.
WWALS thanks Friends of Reed Bingham (FORB), the sponsors, the volunteers who helped, and especially the paddlers. Here we see race organizer Bret Wagenhorst calling out the names of the winners, with Treasurer Gretchen Quarterman handing out the prizes; Ambassador Dave Hetzel also said a few words about WWALS.
Valdosta,
May 15th, 2015 — Three sponsors have signed up for the third annual
BIG Little River Paddle Race on Saturday, May 16, 2015: Tifton
Rotary Club, Cook
Medical Center, and Bret
Wagenhorst, MD. You can register at the event tomorrow morning.
Last year also saw paddlers from as away as New York and Pennsylvania
and even a couple from Germany. Come have a grand time paddling with
friends, fathers and sons, husbands and wives, mothers and daughters.
Bring your canoe or kayak or rent one at Reed Bingham State Park for this fundraiser for Friends of Reed Bingham State Park and WWALS Watershed Coalition. The course runs Continue reading