Photos of the upper Tallulah River and Tallulah River Gorge. To view the complete album of 10 photos, CLICK ON THE IMAGE.

View the photo gallery in conjunction with Suzanne Welander’s 10.7-mile Tallulah River Paddling Guide in two sections, the Coleman River Confluence to Plum Orchard Road (4.7 miles) and Tiger Creek Confluence to Tallulah Falls Lake (6 miles).

The Tallulah River is both a small stream of outstanding beauty and a dramatic whitewater run that pushes the limits of navigability. The headwaters are unbelievably clear, attracting avid anglers and occasional paddlers interested in technical Class II-III runs amid moss-covered boulders. At the other end of the river is the celebrated Tallulah Gorge, home to read-and-run whitewater from Class IV+ to Class V. In between these two extremes are four dams and very little navigable river.

 By MICHAEL MOODY

Roger Thomas and Michael Moody spent Wednesday, August 19th, on the South Fork Broad River taking photographs and recording GPS coordinates for an interactive map of Suzanne Welander’s canoeing guide to the stream. Here are the photographic results of their day’s work. CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE ENTIRE GALLERY. Read Suzanne Welander’s South Fork Broad River paddling guide and view the INTERACTIVE MAP that includes these photographs along with the latitude and longitude coordinates.

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Ogeechee-Canoochee Riverkeeper Program Director Dianna Wedincamp organized a mid-summer paddling trip on the Ogeechee. Here are photos of OCR members on the trip, including first-time paddler Anna Thibeau, who blogged about her expereince, “Seriously, I had not expected to get wet above the knees. I had even styled my hair and put make up on carefully before we left home. The drenching was wonderful!”

Read Anna’s complete blog about her first-ever paddling experience.

First Paddle

By Anna Thibeau

You know those beautiful Impressionistic paintings with couples in row boats? The lady is in a diaphanous gown with a large brimmed hat and the man has on a striped jacket, white pants and a straw hat?  I guess that is what I had in mind when our friend Dianna Wedincamp invited us to join Riverkeeper’s paddle down the Ogeechee River. This being the beginning of the 21st century, bathing suits, bermudas and baseball caps make up a plausible modern version of this idyllic situation.

On the Saturday of our adventure, we set the alarm early so we could be out of the house by 8:00 AM, and after an uneventful trip, arrived at Morgan’s Bridge at the appointed 9:30 AM. The canoes belonging to Riverkeeper were already in the water, and Dianna’s husband Jimmy were keeping guard over them. Other people on the paddle trip were to-ing and fro-ing in cars. I suspected they were doing something useful, but wasn’t quite sure exactly what. (more…)