Not all participants in Saturday’s Canyon Lake Yacht Club Annual Lake Cleanup were aboard boats scouring the lake and shoreline for debris and trash to collect. The innovative participants took to the docks and stretched for what they could find floating in the lake. For what the group lacked in finding trash, they made up for that night partying at Catfish Cove. Photo by Dennis Reams
Yacht Club cleans up clean lake
In what is typically quite a busy event with myriad stories being shared about the odd stuff pulled from the lake and its shores, this year’s Canyon Lake Yacht Club Lake Clean-up found not a whole lot to clean up.
The clean-up on Saturday was open to all community members and several showed up to help. The two-hour clean-up began at 10:00 a.m. at Diamond Point Park and extended across the lake. Cleaning items were provided, and many were welcome to hop on a boat if they did not have one.
Photo by Dennis Reams
The boats criss-crossed the lake looking for garbage to extract from the lake. The task quickly became just trying to spot something to throw away. The event quickly turned into a party, which officially began at 5:45 p.m. Participants anchored and tied up at Catfish Cove.
“There wasn’t too much trash in the lake,” Renee Griffiths said. “It was lovely meeting new people and having folks jump on our boat to help us spot trash in the lake. I love the comradery that naturally happens when people volunteer and serve the community together.”
Photo by Dennis Reams