Eventually we want kiosks like at state parks, but we’re toying with these
as temporary measures for
the dozen landings of the
Alapaha River Water Trail and the two dozen landings of the Withlacoochee and Little River Water Trail.
That’s a realtor information box that holds 8.5×11″ paper, bought for
$13 at Lowe’s,
on a
plain old 5-foot steel electric fence post, about $3.50 from various sources such as
Tractor Supply,
easily installable with
a bazooka, er, I mean a $25 Post Driver.
Smaller boxes, such as 5.5″ wide, are available for $6 each or less.
So that’s a total of $10-20 for each sign and post.
WWALS has money to pay for some of these to start
Now we could use permission from the various county and state agencies to install the signs.
Or funding from counties, chambers, or the like for building and installing kiosks.
Those are more expensive, more like $1,000 each.
However, with local labor (school class project?) they could cost a lot less,
and even less if parts were donated.
Fortunately, many of the landings in Florida already have kiosks supplied by their local counties.
But most of the landings are in Georgia, and few of them have kiosks.
-jsq
You can join this fun and work by becoming a WWALS member today!
Reed Bingham State Park on our Little River,
Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area (WMA) upstream from our Alapaha River,
and
Stephen C. Foster State Park at the headwaters of our Suwannee River in the Okefenokee Swamp,
all on the Anhinga Trek of the
Southern Rivers Birding Trail.
