and filling up landfills with plastic bottles


• Plant drought resistant yard landscaping (if you landscape at all); do not water your yard, learn to love and enjoy nature's natural cycles - the grass will turn green again after just one rainfall! Or if you just have to, at least water in the evening, never during the day (the sun evaporates most of the water, so wasteful)


• Join local efforts like Triad Water Stewards to help clean our waterways and understand watersheds (parking lot water runs into a drain, which feeds into a small stream which feeds into a creek that feeds into our rivers and then into the ocean) All the streams, lakes, reservoirs...are our drinking water! https:// www.facebook.com/groups/501614450020810/


Here are a few local resources in the event you decide to try


your hand to getting on the water naturally in the Triad this sum- mer season to enhance your physical, mental and spiritual state:


• Your local town’s Parks and Recreation Department: more and more towns and cities are realizing the importance of offering water opportunities for their citizens


• GET:OUTDOORS PADDLESPORTS: small, locally owned business in Greensboro for over 25 years. They rent kayaks, SUP’S, canoes, have free monthly on water demos and offer certified instruction for women only with female instructors and co-ed as well. www.shopgetoutdoors.com


• Greensboro Parks and Recreation: Watershed lakes often rent different boats depending on the lake and there is a sailing club at Lake Townsend. http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/index. aspx?page=1151


• Dan River Basin Association: offers a free to the public on water excursion appropriate for beginners every 1st Saturday of every month in warmer months. www.danriver.org


• Haw River Assembly: offers on water activities through local outfitters. www.hawriver.org


• Yadkin River Keeper: offers on water activities and a “Yadkin Tour” for the public. www.yadkin.org


• Local Kayak/Boating/Sailing Clubs in your area, just do a quick search on Facebook or GOOGLE


So no matter what type of boat you choose, hopefully you


are excited about getting on the water naturally in the Triad this summer season! SYOTW! (See you on the water!)


JoAndra (Jo) Proia is the Outdoor Writer for Natural Triad. Her nature writing has been published in several outdoor magazines and she is working on her first guidebook, “Piedmont Lakes” to be published in the spring of 2017. She is an ACA Certified Kayak Instructor and Guide with GET:OUTDOORS WOMEN ON THE WATER, a kayak shop in Greensboro. She is certified in Wilderness First Aid and is an L1 Level yoga teacher. She can be reached at jo.proia@naturaltriad.com


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