Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Roads Clean up and Paddle
Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2004, road pick up and paddle.
This e-mail is being sent seperately to IWLA, Stewards of The White Oak River Basin, Coastal Carolina Kayakers, and NCDOT.
Twelve of us showed up at the T&W restaurant on Rte 58 and picked up State Roads 1l06 and 1109 which are Peletier Loop Road and Firetower Road and West Firetower Road. We split up in pairs and played leap-frog down the roads attacking from either end. We were off the roads and back at the T&W by 10:00.
We left the roads clean and four of us Paddled Pettiford Creek until 3:00.We left Pettiford Creek clean too. We removed two balls, a plastic chair and ghost crab pot and the usual scattered bottles and cans and pails and plastics. Oh yes, we came upon a whole deer in the river marshes. A four point buck. Apparently he had been shot and ran off to die unfound by the hunter who shot him.
We got two bags of trash off the river and a pick up truck full off the roads. See picture. That is Tom Riggs on the left with NCDOT. He came along behind us and picked our bags. The picture shows the truck full of bags behind the group. Other pics are on the web site. They are of the deer, and a gorgeous pyracantha, and live oaks hanging over the water on a sandy beach. It was a lovely day, perfect for paddling.
For our next NCDOT pickup for IWLA we will choose other roads in the Stella area. We hope to find a sponsor who will pay the postage to contact all residents in the area too so we can invite the local residents to join us in the hope that we can thus stop littering of those roads by enlisting them in Adopt-A-Highway Program. "If no one litters there will be no litter".
Our paddle will probably be from the Stella Bridge down to The White Oak Bluffs Subdivision on Hadnot Creek.
Thanks to all who participated. It was a most successful day. Elmer.
This e-mail is being sent seperately to IWLA, Stewards of The White Oak River Basin, Coastal Carolina Kayakers, and NCDOT.
Twelve of us showed up at the T&W restaurant on Rte 58 and picked up State Roads 1l06 and 1109 which are Peletier Loop Road and Firetower Road and West Firetower Road. We split up in pairs and played leap-frog down the roads attacking from either end. We were off the roads and back at the T&W by 10:00.
We left the roads clean and four of us Paddled Pettiford Creek until 3:00.We left Pettiford Creek clean too. We removed two balls, a plastic chair and ghost crab pot and the usual scattered bottles and cans and pails and plastics. Oh yes, we came upon a whole deer in the river marshes. A four point buck. Apparently he had been shot and ran off to die unfound by the hunter who shot him.
We got two bags of trash off the river and a pick up truck full off the roads. See picture. That is Tom Riggs on the left with NCDOT. He came along behind us and picked our bags. The picture shows the truck full of bags behind the group. Other pics are on the web site. They are of the deer, and a gorgeous pyracantha, and live oaks hanging over the water on a sandy beach. It was a lovely day, perfect for paddling.
For our next NCDOT pickup for IWLA we will choose other roads in the Stella area. We hope to find a sponsor who will pay the postage to contact all residents in the area too so we can invite the local residents to join us in the hope that we can thus stop littering of those roads by enlisting them in Adopt-A-Highway Program. "If no one litters there will be no litter".
Our paddle will probably be from the Stella Bridge down to The White Oak Bluffs Subdivision on Hadnot Creek.
Thanks to all who participated. It was a most successful day. Elmer.
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