Thunder and lightning made quite a display to the south, but never came over Banks Lake, while we paddled out to see the sun set, the bats fly, and the moon rise over the cypress trees.

Plus we saw Mars and Venus.

Banner, boats, storm, bats, Venus, Mars

Thanks to Gee Edwards for leading this Banks Lake Full Strawberry Moon paddle for WWALS, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Thanks to everyone who paddled, and to Banks Lake Outdoors and the Lanier County Commission for providing boats.

There are more pictures below.

See also facebook photosets by

• Gretchen Quarterman
• Tom Wheeler
• William Szalkay
• and probably others.

For more WWALS outings and events, see:
https://wwals.net/outings/

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

SL

John Gee Edwards giving the safety lecture –Gretchen Quarterman

Banners

Banners at Banks Lake –Gretchen Quarterman

GC

Sterile Grass Carp sign

BF

Preparing

CT

Into the cypress trees –Gretchen Quarterman

CSM

Cypress and Spanish moss –Gretchen Quarterman

BTS

Brush on tree stob –Gretchen Quarterman

DR

Movie: Distant rain (11M)

WR

Lightning map –Gretchen Quarterman

PC

Pink cloud

BT

Bat tree

BF

Movie: Bats flying –Gee Edwards (2.0M)

MF

Moon framed by cypress –Gee Edwards

BSBB

Blue sky bat tree –Gee Edwards

BT2

Movie: Paddlers around the bat tree (60M)

Moonbats

Movie: Moonrise with bats (71M)

BTT

Movie: Bat tattoos (41M)

SBM

Movie: Sunset, bats, moonrise (91M)

MSBM

Movie: More bats and moonrisen (32M)

Aphrodite

Venus

VBT

Portrait Mars, Venus, bat tree

MBLBR

Moon over Banks Lake Boat Ramp

 -jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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