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Great news!
Leo Schmidt with his boat, Ass Racker, will be joining us doing just
what he did on Earthday with the Marines. He and his boat made the whole
seven, simultaneous trips a success. I will be riding with him as I did
on Earthday.
2010-08-31 tomorrow, Tuesday. We will meet at 9:30 at the junction of
Rte 172 and Bear Creek Road. This is at the Training Gate for Marines on
Rte 172. We will transfer Ass Racker to my truck here as Leo does not
have a pass for his vehicle.
We can take more Stewards in my truck if you don’t have a pass. You can
use my canoes and kayaks or load your boats on my truck.
The other alternative is to drive around like the public does via Rte 17
and 210 and 172.
The Put-in and take out is on the southeast side of the bridge just
before the gate and no pass is necessary to use this newly improved
access for canoes and kayaks and small motor boats.
High tide is at 12:36 at the inlet. Wind is north from 3 to 7 mph.
Weather is sunny with a high of ninety.
Should be a fun day on the water. Come and join us. Elmer
– ________________________________ For our latest trip write-up go to www.waterwaystewards.us ________________________________ ELMER EDDY ELMER@WATERWAYSTEWARDS.US 910-389-4588
We met at 9:30 at the Wildlife Ramp in Lenoxville on Taylors Creek.
Access is now off Lenoxville Road. Formerly access was also from the end
of Front St from Beaufort. You can still get there from Front St but you
have to turn left to Lenoxville Road and then make a U turn back to the
ramp. We set up shuttle for take-out at Wards Creek bridge on Hwy 70
2010-08-12 North River, NC 001.jpg Front Row sitting L/R Joanne
Somerday from River Bend, Jim Niedermeyer from Hubert and Bill Murray
from Pine Knoll Shores. 2nd row, Doug Shumate from Troublesome Creek,
Paul Petrosky from Pennsylvania and Jim Morris from Morehead City. In
the rear about to launch their kayaks are Cal Hansen from New Bern and
Al Morris from Smyrna.
2010-08-12 North River, NC 002.jpg Jim Niedermyer standing, Joanne in
her kayak and Cal Hansen out in Taylors Creek.
2010-08-12 North River, NC 003.jpg The Group in various stages of
getting underway.
2010-08-12 North River, NC 004.jpg Ditto.
2010-08-12 North River, NC 005.jpg Almost ready to go!
The tide was strong flowing toward North River.A steady S/W wind blowing
up the creek too.
We met a lonesome lady paddler sitting it out on the bank waiting for
the tide to change to get back to the ramp.
We entered North River in short order and headed for the North River
Thorofare which is supposed to be between Shepperd Marsh and North
River Marsh. We never found it. but we did get through the marshes. If
it were low tide we would have had to do a lot of back tracking.
The plan was to head for the Town of Straits shoreline. The wind had
picked up and white caps were everywhere. Cal Hansen said we were going
2.7 miles per hour with out even paddling.
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I changed our course as I was concerned about coming out of Goose Bay
and having that wind and those waves beating us against the shore. Well
it did before we reached Wards Creek.
Paul Petrosky was recovering from an injured ankle. He got very tired.
The breaking waves quickly filled his kayak as he got close to shore. We
went ashore and emptied his kayak. We had him sit in the center of my
17.4 foot Discovery. This is where I sat when I had my carpal tunnel
operation. Picture by Joanne Somerday.
 His added weight seemed to stabilize our canoe and actually made
paddling easier. Cal towed Paul’s kayak We paddled around the point and
entered Wards Creek.
We ate lunch on a sandy beach just before South Leonard Creek. We
paddled past South and North Leonard Creeks and coasted in to our
takeout at Wards Creek bridge, a very nice natural take out access on
the northeast side of the bridge.
Every trip is different. This one was more so. Al Morris is checking out
a possible access for us in Goose Bay. He will plan a trip for us and we
hope it will include the two Leonard Creeks and the section of Wards
Creek above Rte 70 bridge if possible.
To all who paddled on this trip please send me your pictures for posting here.
Thanks, Elmer
Last trip we went west from the bridge. This week we will go east. On August 22, 2007 we made this same trip. We have done it several times and always enjoyed it.
We launched at the B. Everett Langston Bridge in Cedar Point and took out at the foot of Park Drive at Mile 15 on Route 58 in Emerald Isle. W will repeat this same trip this Thursday.
We will meet at 9:30 at the bridge. We expect to be off the water by 3:00. We will need to set up shuttle at Park Drive parking lot.
We will stop for some clamming and swimming as we pass Bogue Field and again half way between our shady island lunch stop and Park Drive.
If you go to the Archives list on the left on our web site and click on 2007 August and then:
2007-08-22 Bogue Sound
you can see the pictures and write up of this 2007 trip.
An 8 to 10 mile west wind is predicted to be at our back for the entire trip which should make for smooth and easy paddling. Sunny and high 90′s predicted with very slight chance of a thunderstorm.
Bogue Sound is the ideal place to be on a day like this.
We will will, of course, be picking up all trash as we paddle along hugging the shore. lines. We will not go near Wood Island due to possible unexploded missiles and also it is a Bird Sanctuary.
Hope to see you at the bridge for a fun day on the water. Elmer
2010 Bogue Sound
Emerald Isle Bridge to Coast Guard Station Emerald Isle
Standing: Randy Siler, Jack Cleaves, Marchita Hutchins, Scott Brown, Leo Schmidt, Elmer Eddy
First Row: Ed Gruca, Jim Niedermeyer
Elmer dragging his clam rake.
Renovated Coast Guard Station
Coast Guard advises Elmer they cannot allow us to use their picnic table
This is a view, looking East, of the changes at old Bogue Inlet. The houses at the right were once only a few feet
from a 25 foot deep channel threatening their homes. The new Bogue Inlet is a few hundred yards West.
Boat parts washed up from the wreck of the Snow White
This is the Snow White at the dock in Beaufort June 3, 2010. Maybe the last photo!
Now she is litter for the Stewards
Snow White in the bags
Elmer says a big Thank You to Leo Schmidt for bringing his boat
Leo said this was the last day for his long hair!!
A lone egret digesting a days catch of finger mullet
Elmer and Jim attempt to cross the ICW
Loading up
Cleaning up
Please join Jim on this great trip he has planned. Thanks, Elmer
Subject: Thursday Paddle
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:04:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: jim morris <jimboat123@yahoo.com>
We will paddle from Morehead City to Beaufort and return. Meet at 9:30 AM Thursday, May 6th at the northern end of 7th street in Morehead City. This is a public water access in a residential neighborhood, with a dock, gazebo and small beach. From here we will paddle east past the Army landing craft, south under the US70 bridge, through the State Port and around the southern end of Radio Island. We continue under the Pivers Island bridge, Grayden Paul bridge and on to the newly rebuilt Beaufort ramp at Town Creek. This would be a good lunch stop. There is a floating kayak launching dock, a small snack bar, and public restrooms here. We can continue around the marshes that are north of the Beaufort-Morehead causeway, pass by Phillips Island (old fish factory chimney still standing) and back to north 7th street landing. This should be about a 7 mile trip. The tides will be partly with us and partly against us since we will be going in lots of different directions. Jim Morris
At this time I cannot see my way clear to go paddling this week. Wed, Thurs and Friday look like excellent paddling days for this area. Please, for those of you who can, please make up the trip you want to do and send it to me.
I will send them out to all and you can decide which trip, or trips, you want to do.
For those of you who have not seen our video, Purposeful Paddlers- The Story of The Waterway Stewards, you can now see it at:
The Waterway Stewards Story
Thanks,
Elmer
(I will get our recent paddling trips out on our web site ASAP. We were treated to an excellent birthday party by.Scott Brown with champaign and brownies and portrait pictures, at the old Indian camping ground on the White Oak. Also on the seven simultaneous Camp Lejeune trips with the marines and the help of Brian Wheat and Tess Sanders, the White Oak/New River Keeper. Elmer)
Northeast Creek, Paddle #1, Lead by Stewards Joanne Somerday of River Bend.
Pictures by Ed Gruca of Emerald Isle.
2010-04-22 Earthday Camp Lejuene. This picture of of the whole group at the
orientation meeting place in the Commissary parking lot.
This is Cpl Jones a Combat Photographer for the Globe who accompanied Elmer
Eddy of Trenton and Leo Schmidt of Emerald Ilse in his motor boat. She took
pictures and interviewed participants on all seven trips except the Scales
Creek trip as they were way up the creek as we went by the entrance.
Who is the buffalo and who is she?
Whose back is this?
Francine Popkin and Tess Saunders, White Oak-New Riverkeeper wearing a Pitt hat loaned
by Ed Gruca for the day.
Capt. Orlando Chaparro, Deputy Director of the Environmental Management
Division aboard Camp Lejeune, who handled all the planning and details on
the Camp Lejuene end and Elmer Eddy of Waterway Stewards who did the
same on the civilian side.
 This is the put in at Tarawa Terrace on Northeast Creek. This shot and
the next three were taken from the bucket truck by Cpl Jones, Combat
Photographer. These paddlers are doing Paddle Trails #1 and #2. #1
paddlers went east and #2 went west.
Steve and Allen of the Power Company were very gracious in taking
Cpl Jones up in their bucket. They were istalling solar panels to power
the flood light at the ramp.
That is Ed Gruca of Richmond and Emerald Isle who is The Stewards
photographer on this trip for Canoe Trail #1 on Northeast Creek. .
I think that is Joanne Someday, trip leader int my sigle canoe and
Marine Donte in her kayak.
Marines Armando and Donte head up the creek along the north shore
toward the Rte 24 bridge.
Donte Simmons is getting the hang of it
Marine, Armando Martinez, learns quickly
April Clark from Swansboro discovers a bed headboard. We left it for
the Mother Ship but they did not get it so we picked it up on the way back.
Paddlers gather around the Mother Ship piloted by Leo Schmidt with
Elmer aboard to off load from the kayaks.
Cpl Jones gets Armando and Donte picking up litter.
Marine Donte looks at home in Joanne’s kayak.
They are rocking now.
Marrie Donte at a Cable Crossig sign.
A fallen red cedar tree.
Lunch stop at the RT 24 bridge.
There was a lot of trash under the bridge.
April and Armando trashing under the bridge. We picked up several bags of trash here.
Sadly, there were at least 20 tires on the other side near the gas station.
Donte is loaded.
So is April.
Joanne Somerday, using Elmer’s small canoe collected everyone’s bag.
The old railroad bridge which is now a bike and walking trail.
Here is Joanne with a canoe full of litter.
Phil Guardino told us he had 18 days left in the Marines. So where did he get this shirt???
We have no idea! Good luck Phil in Law Enforcement. Has Ed pulled
some trick photography here?
Heading back to Tarawa Terrace dock.
This green heron was curious about my whistle and emerged from hiding.
Ed Gruca with the headboard picked up on the way back. Good thing we
were paddling directly into the wind when it kicked up briefly.
The two Northeast Creek groups and their collection of trash.
Armando holding what we believe once belonged to an alligator.
This photo was taken from high above in the bucket truck by Marine photographer.
As published in The Globe April 29, 2010 Edition.
That is Elmer on the dock. Joanne Somerday to the right and
Ed Gruca getting ready to shove off April Clark.
Thanks Ed ;and Cpl JOnes for the excellent pictures.
It was a great day on the water. This Earthday paddle
accomplished in one day what it would have taken us
seven days to do without the Marines.
Thank you Mainres who volunteered. And thank you
Capt Chaparro and Cpl Jones. And thank all you Stewards.
All of you who participated automatically become Waterway
Stewards.We have no dues, no officers, and no meetings.
The only meetings are when we meet on the water to paddle
and pick up trash wherever we paddle.
If you want to get notices of all trips plesae send us your
e-mail address and we will add you to our address book.
You can even start a small group where you live and do the
same thing for your local waters.
We plan to continue cleaning up all waters in Camp Lejeune
as we have for the past nine years. We hope to have many
volunteer Marines as swe did today. Thanks, Elmer
Elmer: You need to ask Jim if he delivers TopsyTurvy tire plants.
Thanks to Francine Popkin for these photos.
We put in at Tar Landing at 10:15 after setting up
our shuttle at Jacks Island in Lawson Park.
A view from Tar Landing. WE couldn’t ask for a more
beautiful day with excellent conditions for padding.
We saw very few people but were greeted by such
as these frequently.
Also ospreys like this.
Spanish moss adds to the scenery.
Francine nets her first piece of litter.
And becomes a Waterway Steward
Lunchtime at 12:00
One of hundreds of beautiful homes along the Trent
The whole trip was worth it just to see them.
Osprey on the nest, his or her’s beautiful home!
Osprey guarding the nest. There was
a home like this on many channel markers.
New Bern Golf and Country Club.
Jim prepares his boat for take off.
Jim turns into the wind.
And fires up the afterburner on the Morris Mach 2
River Eater.
What is this in the water?
It is or was a boat. Will it stay there forever?
Rte 70 bridge over the Trent.
Jim coasts under the dual bridges.
A great trip on a great day on a great river. Very little
scattered trash. But, it did add up at the end of the trip.
We had to pass lots of trash in the marsh grasses in the
last half mile of the trip. It was 3:30. All this trash is very
visible and should be removed. This needs to be done at
high wind tide time to get at it. The water is shallow and
the wind and waves have pushed the trash back into the
marshes. It is ugly and destroys the beauty of this lovely
setting in the New Bern harbor on the Trent.
The trash today was the usual beer cans and bottles plus
two tires, a very large boat seat cushion in good condition,
Jim’s jet engine, and the usual styrofoam and other plastics.
Our participants today were Jim Morris from Morehead City,
Bill Murray from PIne Knoll Shores, Ed Gruca and Rancine
Popkin from Emerald Isle, Harry Paterson from Jacksonville
and Elmer Eddy from Tenton.
Thank you Ed for the wonderful pictures. Elmer
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