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This is the most beautiful time of year at Greenfield Lake. And to help you experience the lake at its most glorious CFRW has scheduled two special 90 minute Photographers’ Tours of the lake in our new electric boat. The first tour will be on Wednesday, October 29th at 7:00am.  Take advantage of the last week before the end of Daylight Savings Time to see Greenfield at it’s most mysterious and peaceful. The morning mist rising off the mirror smooth lake and mixing with the Spanish Moss in the autumn cypress is a photo op not to be missed. Throw in alligators, egrets, herons, anhingas, turtles, cormorants etc.  and it’s worth getting up early. The second Photographers’ Tour will be the next week on November 5th at 4:00pm to take advantage of the lake in the afternoon’s “golden hour” when migrating waterfowl start returning from their daily feeding expeditions.

The new electric boat is ideal for this kind of tour: smooth, stable, silent, non-polluting, and vibration free. Each tour will be led by CFRW’s Program Director and staff naturalist Joe Abbate so if something is out there, you’ll see it.  Contact Joe at 910-762-5606 for reservations or e-mail him at joe@cfrw.us. 

Cost for these tours is $15/person for members, $20 for non-members.

In case you missed the rather damp 8 hours of music and environmentalism we called the 2008 Greenfield Lake Cypress Festival – and judging by the sparse crowds you probably did – it was a heck of a show.  Good people, great music and the weather was . . . well, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.

For those true environmentalists who recognized that rain is a part of the environment and can’t get enough of the great music, click on the links for the bands’ homepages and full schedules – no need to wait for 2009.

L Shape Acoustic – Wow.  Two guys and two guitars is a pretty simple formula to produce a LOT of good music.  Catch the full band (L Shape Lot, with rhythm section) on October 16th at WHQR or at October 24th’s Downtown Sundown Celebration.

Ron Etheridge and Travis Shallow – Two more guys and two more guitars – and the formula doesn’t get tired. Watch for these guys around Wrightsville Beach and check out their videos.

Sera Harold – Sera shares an office with River Watch as part of her day job so we already knew she was pretty cool. Now everybody else knows it as well.

Daniel Parish – If you follow the Wilmington music scene at all you already knew Daniel Parish was the real thing. Look for him at Wilson’s on a fairly regular basis.

The Cedar Circuit -  Cedar, Cypress, whatever. Who knew that acoustic and funk went together so well?

The Clams – Never mind the clown hair, the gorilla mask, or the local celebrity on guitar – these guys were the real thing. Look for them playing at the Latino Festival.

After School Special – It was dark, it was raining, people had been dancing in the rain for 7 hours and were tired. That’s a tough crowd and After School Special owned them heart and soul from the first beat. What a great finish. Look for A.S.S. at 16 Taps on Halloween and next day at the Battleship for the Triathlon.

CFRW’s classic paddling guide Blackwater Paradise: A Canoeing Guide to the Northeast Cape Fear and its Tributaries by CFRW co-founder Bruce Watkins has sold out. That should come as no surprise as it’s one of the finest regional paddling guides written.

We’re hoping to print another run of Blackwater Paradise soon  but we’d like to hear from our paddling members how they’ve annotated their own copies and incorporate that information in the next edition.  Do you have notes like “better access at south side of bridge” or “fallen trees 2 miles up” penciled in the margins? Share.  

Send your suggested updates and annotations to Kemp Burdette or call him at 910-762-5606. 

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