Great Suwannee River Cleanup - Stage 2

The Fowlers Bluff Gathering

Jay, Jim, Karen, Richard, Robin bringing in their haul.

Pam, Ted, Daniel, Sandy bringing in their haul.

Donna and Russ helping unload.

About 30 Friends members gathered at the Fowlers Bluff boat ramp this morning, shoved off in 6 boats, and came back with huge hauls of trash from the river banks. Along the way, 3 water moccasins were spotted, a merganser, lots of asters, a sunning butterfly, and Flat Ben. Flat Ben was visiting Maria and wanted his photo taken with a snake skin her crew found.

Butterfly on asters

Merganser

Flat Ben, with the snake skin, signing people in from the day's work.

We collected propane tanks, lots of water logged slabs of wood and chunks of styrofoam, a huge piece of metal that might have once been a door of a walk-in cooler, bottles, plastic, and undescribable yucky stuff. Roger found a message in a bottle. One crew hefted onto their boat a slab of wood that appeared to be part of a long set of stairs. It barely fit in the boat. Look at how Ted handled getting it out of the boat!

When the dumpster is weighed, we'll post the total poundage.

Roger and the message from the bottle

On a break from the hauling and hiking in the muck

Heavy, waterlogged wood

Ted found a better way