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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 [...] Trenton to Quaker Neck Country Club on Quaker Bridge Road This is about 8 miles. We launched at 10.00 and reached Quaker Neck Country Club a little after 2:00. Pretty good time considering all the trash we picked up. High water levels due to tropical storm Nicole that resulted in 12 to 20 inches across [...] These are Ed Gruca’s pictures of this trip. Ed is our official photographer. This trip was made for several reasons. It was our usual fun trip because we love to paddle and we always pick up all traxh we encounter as we paddle. We picked up two bags of the usual trash on this trip. [...] 2010-09-20 Blue Creek and the New River Jacksonville, NC This trip is upstream of Routes 17 and 24 in Jacksonville, NC. Thanks to Leo Schmidt of Emerald Isle it was conducted by motorboat instead of our usual canoes and kayaks. This is more efficient as you will see. The principle reason for the trip was [...] This is the Fair Grounds where Jim Morris and I launched our canoes. You get there by going two blocks north from the traffic light in Trenton and turning left. This is the actual launching site. It is a drafting point for the Fire Department so do not block the entrance. Park well away. Jim [...] Thanks to Ed Gruca for the pics and helping to get them ready for posting! Thanks also to Paula Gillikin, Director of the Sanctuary who came out and guided us and provided photos. This was a great trip on a great day and was most enjoyable. We will be going back again and again until [...] This is the spoils island where they pump the dredged material from the harbor to be used later to restore the beaches. There is a huge lake in the middle of it. It isn’t The Grand Canyon but you get that same sensation when you look down into it. This is pretty unique in Eastern [...] These three pictures are of the trash Leo Schmidt and Elmer Eddy picked up on this trip. There are seven and one half full bags there plus a few miscellaneous items. We Stewards had picked up this trash several years ago. We were overloaded on that tip and had to unload it on the [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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