Please join Field Trip Chair and Master Birder Lynn Hodgson for a slow-paced kayak paddle on Ebenezer Creek, Rincon, GA. We will paddle about an hour downstream and an hour back up, through mostly old growth swamp with bald cypress trees, some of which are over a thousand years old. We will probably see only a few bird species, but we often see pileated woodpeckers, occasionally a barred owl, as well as a few of our migrant warblers back here from points south.

Ebenezer Creek is a historic Civil War site, remembered for the tragedy in which many formerly enslaved people drowned while trying to follow General Sherman’s army. The Creek has very little flow and the protective 10 swamp allows only very light breezes inside, making this excellent for beginning kayakers.

Cost of the field trip is $12.

An additional kayak rental and outfitter fee is required. Our outfitters are Jim and Teri Pahorsky, Beaufort Kayak Tours. The outfitter fee of $60 per person (for kayak, PFD, paddle and guide service) to be paid on site in cash or check. (If you bring your own kayak, the Outfitter fee is $40). We will have 10 single and 4 tandem kayaks available. After you register, please email Lynn whether you want single or tandem, or if you are flexible (hodgson.lynn@aol.com). Either bring a sack lunch to eat at the boat ramp, or join Lynn and the outfitters at The Tin Fin Restaurant in Rincon, GA for lunch. There are outhouses at the boat ramp, but you will not be able to get out of the kayaks in the pluff mud of the swamp!

Meet at Tommy Long Boat Ramp, Rincon, GA, 9 a.m. Navigation devices will find this boat ramp, but just in case…. Directions: Take Rte 95 south from Bluffton toward Savannah. Take the first Georgia exit, #109, just after the Georgia Welcome Center. Keep right and head north on Rte 21. Go about 3 miles, turn right on Old Augusta Rd. For about the next 11 or so miles, you are on this road, although you pass straight ahead through 2 round-abouts (traffic circles) and the name changes erratically (e.g. Ft. Howard Rd, Long Bridge Rd). About l/2 mile after the second roundabout, turn right on Wylly Rd. Go 1.7 miles and turn left onto Tommy Long Road to the boat ram