Waterway Stewards

Here are the pictures we promised you thanks to Jim Dunn who took them

and Ed Gruca who prepared them for us to put on the web.

In the first three we are getting ready to launch our boats at the ramp on
the golf course at Quaker Neck Country Club. The public can use this ramp
for a [...]

Date Correction! Original posting had a February posting date already gone by!We are paddling on Monday, March 3rd. Our long range weather forecast says,“Sunny, 71 degrees” . We can’t pass that up. Come join us. ElmerTHE CLEARING AND CLEANSING OF THE TRENT RIVER, JONES COUNTY’S GREATEST NATURAL ASSET

The Trent River has water! The Neuse River is [...]

You can see all 90 (!) of Jim’s photos here: [...]

These pictures are of two strainers on the Trent River which has just been cleared of fallen trees blocking all navigation on this river for years. This river was just cleared to a 15 foot clearance for free passage throuh these fallen trees. These pictures clearly show that this 15 opening is not sufficient in [...]

Next week Tuesday, the 26th we meet at The Quaker Neck Country Club on Oak Grove Road and paddle down to Pollocksville. Join us if you can.

The following pictures were taken by Jim Dunn and Joanne Somerday and prepared for the web site by Ed Gruca.

The group picture is missing as I accidentally deleted it. Ed [...]

This section of the Trent River is most enjoyable. It twists and turns and doubles back on itself and has one small and two large islands at this water level which was a little over six feet at the USGS gauge which is mounted at the Chinquapin Chapel Bridge called Free Bridge.

This section is described on [...]

That is Doug Toltzman with his camera mounted on a tripod to record a video

which is already on our web site. He is on Joanne Somerday’s boat which is

appropriately named “Summer Day”. Sorry, that picture disappeared and the one

below is: L/R Julia Minor form Araphoe, Jim Niedermeyer from Hubert, Hugh

Passingham from Jacksonville, Elmer Eddy from [...]

The above is a link to a video by Doug Toltzman of our trip on River Bend waters on The Trent River. The side Creek we went up was Muddy Creek. Elmer

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