Waterway Stewards

Tropical Storm Nichole and the preceding several days of continuous rain caused the Trent River and all tributaries to rise into the flood stage. We have tried to paddle the Trent since then and are
blocked again and again. So much so that the upper reaches of the Trent are not navigable even with [...]

Alligator weed is still  here in this New Year!

Bill Norris thinks we have made good progress in

2010 and we  have but we need to do better in 2011

to get rid of it.

Bill has contracted with Jimmy Droze who does excellent

work in clearing our rivers of fallen trees.  This alone will be a giant step

forward too, as [...]

Quaker Neck Country Club to Pollocksville, NC

Pictures by Joanne Somerday. Thank you again, Joanne. Joanne is from
River Bend and is one of our very first Stewards. Her lilting laughter carries
a long way over the waters when we are paddling. She adds much pleasure
to our trips.

This is Scott Brown of Morehead City and Elmer Eddy of [...]

We launched our canoes ans kayaks and one motorboat at the Wildlife ramp at
the end of Front St on Taylor’s Creek at Lenoxville, The trip was planned to be
at the high tide cycle for ease in retrieving trash which  comes to rest at the
high tide lineup in the marshes.

It requires getting out of our boats and [...]

These pictures are by Joanne Somerday.

This is at the Wildlife Ramp on Landfill Road in Trenton
That is Scott Brown form Morehead City in the foreground
and Leo Schmidt in the the rear.

These are our newest Stewards. Jon Park, the son, and Wade, ‘
his father, on the right. They moved down here from upper New York
‘State. They live [...]

Pictures by Joanne Somerday. Thank you again, Joanne. Joanne is from
River Bend and is one of our very first Stewards. Her lilting laughter carries
a long way over the waters when we are paddling. She adds much pleasure
to our trips.

This is Scott Brown of Morehead City and Elmer Eddy of Trenton at our put-in
at the County Club [...]

This is what I found as I drove down the dirt road to John Taylor’s fishing concession on The Rock Quarry Lakes at Rte 17 in Maysville, NC.  This is just before you turn left into to the road to the ramp. The road is completely washed out leaving a deep ravine!

The Lakes [...]

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 off the very first [...]

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 are Joanne’s pictures.
Thank you Joanne!

That [...]

The following is submitted by Ed Gruca our Photographer for Waterway Stewards.
Great work Ed. The map is excellent.

We put in at Shell Rock Landing at 8:30 AM and encountered three deer hunters across the Waterway
at the entrance to the creek leading to Bear Inlet.
They had two nice buck they bagged on the island East of the [...]