POSTPONED: Volunteer Guides and Safety Boaters Needed - Paddle Punta Gorda 2024

POSTPONED: Due to the damage to our community and the waterways, Paddle Punta Gorda has been postponed. TEAM Punta Gorda will assess the conditions in the next few months and if possible, will reschedule for January/February time frame.
We will keep everyone posted on updates as they become available. Thank you for your continued support of TEAM Punta Gorda.

The non-profit Team Punta Gorda is hosting Paddle Punta Gorda, to get more people paddling in PG. We will hold paddles at 5 locations of about 15 paddlers at each location, followed by a group lunch at the Charlotte Harbor Environmental Center (CHEC).

We are asking for volunteers to guide participants on paddles from the following locations in and near Punta Gorda, FL: Ponce Park, Webb Lake, CHEC, Gaines Veterans Park, and either Nav-A-Gator or Hathaway Park (Shell Creek). We need at least one guide for each location.

Each trip will include an environmentalist, and two locations (CHEC and either Nav-A-Gator or Hathaway Park) will have rental kayaks.

We are also looking for volunteer safety boaters as well. If you know how to perform a group rescue, then you qualify. We need seven safety boaters (two for the rental group). Help us invite new paddlers to the sport and get a free lunch, including free beer. Last year the volunteers were eligible for the included raffle of some really great prizes!

More details to follow as we get closer to the event. The start time has not been set. For more information, email Brian AT BayKayaking DOT com.

The all-volunteer Team Punta Gorda was established in 2004 to help build community following Hurricane Charley, which devastated the city.