Joe Cook
Joe Cook is the coordinator for Paddle Georgia.
Paddle Georgia
This 7 day paddling trip for 300 people in canoes and kayaks allows paddlers to experience a different Georgia river each year. Each night, participants are shuttled to campsites at local schools and other facilities where educational programs, games, entertainment and meals are provided. Gear is transported from campsite to campsite in a gear truck. Meals are catered for those that wish to purchase the meal plan. To learn more, visit http://www.garivers.org/paddle_georgia/pghome.html.
Georgia River Network
Paddle Georgia is a project of Georgia River Network. Georgia River Network is working to ensure a clean water legacy by engaging and empowering Georgians to protect and restore our rivers from the mountains to the coast. To learn more, visit http://www.garivers.org.
Joe, I manage a dental practice and I’m currently redecorating one of our offices. I saw your photography on Deserving Design. Do you have a website or someplace to view your work. I would love to have some of your pieces in our new office. What I saw on HGTV was just beautiful. Please let me know. Thank you.
Joe:
Very nice shot of the Anthony Shoals channel on the blog. It’s striking to see on Google Earth or Google maps. The shoal lilies peak the third weekend in May. The Broad River Watershed Association does a shoal lily float that Saturday from Hwy 17 to the ACE Broad River Campground boat ramp off Hwy 77.
I tried to comment on the Scouting the Broad blog, but couldn’t get to a comment page.
Vic Johnson, BRWA
Joe, didn’t see you mention the ‘canals’ that make it [ always] possible to run Anthony Shoals even at very low water. I’ve got some great pic’s of them and the shoal lilies if you’re ever interested.
Also, let me know if I can help with the exploring part of the Savannah system [ including the Broad River of course].
Victor mentioned above the Shoal Lily float the BRWA puts on in May of every year. The BRO helps out with the shuttles / guiding on those trips so I noticed that there was a mistake on the SR numbers. The trip starts at the [ only] boat ramp on the Broad River at SR 17 and ends at the US Corp of Engineer [ misnamed] Broad River Campground located on SR 79 [and not 77].
Also, you described the shoals at 1/4 mile in length. I think it’s nearly a mile long with three sections shaped like a double dog leg.
The upper leg has a canal [visible and very useful at low water], the middle leg has no canal, and the lower leg has a class II run on a canal [ calling it that for lack of a better word] that’s always visible and always runnable.
The middle and lower legs have the shoal lilies.
Last year, the river ended not at the shoals but a half mile below the 79 bridge. The lake levels dropping due to the drought added another mile of river. I find it much nicer to paddle a river than a lake.
The boat ramp at the US Corp’s campground was a couple hundred feet from any water. So, for a short time, the corp campground was more or less accurately named, Broad River Campground.
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