I look forward to your updates!
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I'll also try to get on the board sometime during the trip. My apologies to the entire eastern seaboard, as I can absolutely guarantee bad weather during any trip I plan!
Be careful camping on those sandbars. Of course you know that the Neuse is a damn release river. Had a friend learn that the hard way as I did on the Cape Fear many years ago.
Enjoyed your whole journal down the Mississippi.
We used to paddle the Neuse in Septembers several years ago until the water just didn't look fit for cooling off in anymore. We would run from Goldsboro down to Kinston.
Paddled it a few time around Grifton in the last few years also.
bugs and spiders and snakes, oh my!!!!!!!1
Glad you liked the Mississippi journals. I'd love to do another long river like that again. Maybe doing the Missouri River in 2010, but there's alot that'll have to come together for that to happen.
I'll probably be using a hammock for this trip. They're cooler in the heat, and a little easier to deal with when trying to find campsites.
Then there's that hurricane thing...
-JP
I guess you're using a jungle-type hammock?
Are you going it alone?
There's a little campground up Core Creek between Kinston and Ft. Barnwell you may want to check out.
Do you have a support crew moving along with you?
I'd be willing to help out if needed.
(08-20-2009 03:52 PM)re: heels Wrote: [ -> ]I guess you're using a jungle-type hammock?
Are you going it alone?
There's a little campground up Core Creek between Kinston and Ft. Barnwell you may want to check out.
Do you have a support crew moving along with you?
I'd be willing to help out if needed.
Yeah - it's a Eagle's Nest hammock with a bugnet. I may use a tarptent instead, but that'll be a gameday decision depending on how many days my wife can paddle.
Thanks for the offer. I'll be self-supported for the most part, but give me a holler if you want to grab a beverage.
(08-20-2009 03:22 PM)re: heels Wrote: [ -> ]We used to paddle the Neuse in Septembers several years ago until the water just didn't look fit for cooling off in anymore. We would run from Goldsboro down to Kinston.
We used to say "Goldsboro flushes and Kinston drinks."
(08-20-2009 01:31 PM)Source to Sea Wrote: [ -> ]Just a head's up. I'll be paddling the Neuse River in conjunction with the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation starting next week. We'll be doing some media events, working with area middle schools, having a public paddle session in New Bern, and there will be a slideshow series this fall. My wife and I paddled the Mississippi River in 2005 with the Audubon Society, so this will be similar (albeit, MUCH shorter!)
More details are at: http://sourcetosea.net/paddling-the-neus...awareness/
Gear List: http://sourcetosea.net/neuse-river-kayaking-gear-list/
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Source-to-...0405517222
Feel free to holler with any questions.
-JP
Awesome...your in Water Quality?
I have paddled the area quite frequently and normally put in at the WildLife Road boat launch just off 43. Sweet spot you can swing right and paddle a few hundred yards into the narrows or left towards the bridge in more open waters. You guys will have a blast;enjoy and be safe!