Stewards of the White Oak River Basin Current Events

Click on this to get the story and pictures of this very enjoyable paddle.

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Click on this to get the story and pictures of this very enjoyable paddle.

http://home.earthlink.net/~paddlingineasternnorthcarolina/060421hawkinscreek/index.html

A difference of opinion has developed over the method of launching canoes and kayaks at the floating dock at Hammocks Beach State Park.

We have written the following to the powers that be. Please express your opinion to them with copy to us of both or either method if you have used them. We have also written the Town of Swansboro about the possibility of an access to Hawkins Creek at the corner of Rte 24, West Corbett Avenue and West Shore Drive.

This was sent to Paul Donnelly, ,paul.donnelly@ncmail.net of Hammocks Beach State Park and
Frank Rush, frush@emeraldisle-nc.org , County Manager of Emerald Isle, as they are now building similar launching devise at Emerald Woods Park.

" Four of us talked with Ranger Bland Friday after our paddle from Hammocks to Swansboro.

We will send you our report of this trip as soon as it is compiled with pictures. This will go out to all on our paddle list and we will be asking them to let us know if they have used the new launching facilities and what their opinion is about them.

We will also ask them it they have used Yak-A-Launcher and their opinion on them. We will ask them to e-mail you directly with copy to us to save at lot of paper work or if you want we can we can collect the results and send them to you as you prefer.

We are hoping two of these of the commercial variety may be the answer to the objections voiced by some. These could simply be a low cost addition to what you presently have.

Mr. Privette of Paddle Pamlico, returned our call to him as we were writing this.
> www.paddlepamlico.com
You can see the story on the Yak-A-Launcher at: http://www.paddlepamlico.com/YAL.htm

e-mail: al@paddlepamlico.com or: info@paddlepamlico.com

We will leave it up to the three of you to get together. If you want us to come to try out a Yak-A-Launcher, let us know.

Elmer Eddy

Elmer, The White Oak River Trashman
Stewards of The White Oak River Basin
Please visit our web site: www.whiteoakstewards.org Cell phone: 910-389-4588"
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(Type "wild horse" on Google and see what you get. We got #1 out of 48 million! Come paddle over to Shackleford and see them for yourself. We were picking up trash when we got this one. We have more fun when we paddle and pick up trash. Elmer)

Click on this url for the story and picutres. Our thanks to Ed Gruca of Emerald Isle for developing this presentation for us. The launch area at Hammocks Beach State Park stirred up quite a controversy. Do you have any suggestions for improvement to make it more user freindly? Elmer


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