It was a gorgeous day on the water. We hope this map and pictures by Ed Gruca will help you to enjoy some of the pleasures of paddling the White Oak River with us. The plan was to paddle the western shore on this trip. as you can see by the second arrow we cut […]

Here we are Scott Grafton’s new launching facility at Boodocks in Stella at the Bridge. Scott allows us use these facilities free as we do pick up all trash and litter as we paddle. That is Bill Murray at the left and Harry Patterson on the right. Earlier we showed you Ed Gruca’s pictures. These […]

The Eddy family participated 100% as Stewards of The White Oak River Basin. It was a great day. The miniature horses stole the show! Elmer Grammie, Florence Eddy, riding shot gun. Nick Eddy with Galahad. These pictures were taken between 9:00 and 10:00 while the Parade was being made up. Because of the miniature horses […]

2007-10-13 Swansboro Mullet Festival Parade Elmer Eddy Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman Stewards of The White Oak River Basin 101 River Reach Drive West, Swansboro, NC. 28584 910-389-4588 e-mail: elmer@whiteoakstewards.org Please visit our website: http://www.whiteoakstewards.org/ “If no one litters, there will be no litter!”

Sub -caption: The need for public Canoe and Kayak access to The White Oak River in Swansboro. Last week we paddled from Cedar Point to Stella on the Carteret County side of the White Oak River. This week we paddled from Stella to Swansboro. We had a strong N/W wind at our backs and an […]

2007-01-15 Hawkins Creek Swansboro, NC These pictures portray what we were able to accomplish in a very short time with the new reciprocating chain saw given to us by Swansboro United Methodist Church in appreciation of what we Stewards do for our environment in cleaning up our waters. We have been wanting to do this […]

We launched our boats at the foot of North Front Street in Swansboro. We paddled directly across the White Oak River next to the bridge. This took us to the causeway between the two bridges. We had not paddled across here before. We had six full trash bags when we reached the far shore of […]

We took students of Swansboro High School over to Sharks Tooth Island to clean up this island for our visiting tourists who are attracted to it for picnics and swimming because of the nice sandy beaches. The students also received credits toward scholarship funds for participating. . We had a very successful clean up as […]

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