Stewards of the White Oak River Basin Current Events

We put in at Haywood Landing on the White Oak River and went down to Grants Creek and Bob Finn and I motorboated upstream in his 14 foot Jon boat. Tom Fineco was in his kayak.

Bob brought his chain saw and we opened up one blocklage.While we were working on that Tom paddled upstream and from his
discription he got to the same tree blocking the river that Joanne and I hit coming down the other way last week.

So, except for that one tree, Grants Creek is open to canoeing from the Belgrade-Grade Swansboro Road to the White Oak River. It is a 6 to 8 inch tree so a chain saw would make quick work ot that. Grants Creek it a very pretty creek. We also motored up Calebs Creek for a short ways. It is a lovely creek too. It joins the White Oak right next to Grants Creek.

Thank you Bob and Tom for making this possible. If we could get this done on Starkys and Hadnot Creek we would have two more creeks which we could paddle from Pont A to B. We need to keep our streams open. We don't leave fallen trees across our roads. Our rivers are our roads

It was a lovely day. The wind was strong from the Northeast but that did not bother us at all on Grants Creek in the woods.

And, we set a brand new record; not a single piece of trash did we see! This has never happened before.

Picture is of Capt. Bob Finn at the controls. Bob is from Jacksonville. Tom is from New Bern. Elmer
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