Salt Creek Journal Release Party

Salt Creek Journal Release Party - Release party for Salt Creek Journal.

The project consists of several semesters' worth of writing and photography from Dr. Thomas Hallock's Nature Writing classes at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, as well as from other local writers.

Here are some photos of Dr. Hallock's class, as well as here.

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Bob Devins Jones, reading

Nature Writing Class - "Field" (Or Water) Trip

Nature Writing Class - "Field" (Or Water) Trip

One of the classes Dr. Thomas Hallock teaches is a Nature Writing class at the University of Florida St. Petersburg, usually during the spring. Besides reading nature-related books and articles, students write about nature, especially pertaining to St. Petersburg's Salt Creek, which empties into Bayboro Harbor. There are also several "field trips" (and water trips) to learn about Salt Creek, as well as Florida's waterways. Students also learn about the need for a clean environment; part of the field trips are to help clean waterways.

Here, the students are at the turn-around point for their Salt Creek kayaking/rowing trip.



Students are getting ready to turn around to head back to USFSP.



Heading back.



Here, one of the students reaches to pull garbage out of the water on the way back to USFSP.



Tom Hallock (with white cap) is an enthusiastic professor. His class was one of my favorite classes while at USFSP.



These bags of garbage were taken from part of Salt Creek during Dr. Hallock's 2011 Nature Writing class.

Earth Day

Earth Day - Thomas Hallock teaches at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. One of his classes, taught once a year, is a Nature Writing class. The first time the class was taught, the class held a clean-up of Salt Creek, a waterway that runs from Lake Maggiore to Bayboro Harbor.

Sign from Earth Day cleanup, 2011.



Tom Hallock, talking to the class before the clean up.





Tom Hallock jumped in to help with the Salt Creek clean up.



Nearing the end of the clean up



Some of the garbage collected in the hour-and-a-half on the water.



Tired of garbage in the environment yet?

Beginning of Salt Creek, Wildlife, Garbage

Beginning of Salt Creek, Wildlife, Garbage

Kayak Trip on Salt Creek

Kayak Trip on Salt Creek - part of Dr. Thomas Hallock's 2012 Nature Writing class from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg

Leaving the 4th Street Bridge





Tom Hallock, in white cap

Paddling on Salt Creek

Paddling on Salt Creek

Kayaking, Salt Creek, From Thrill Hill

Kayaking, Salt Creek, From Thrill Hill - From a 2012 outing of University of South Florida (USFSP) nature writing class, taught by Thomas Hallock.

Paddling on Salt Creek

Paddling on Salt Creek - Going over some past photos and ran across some from a kayaking trip on Salt Creek. These were from a nature writing class taught at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, taught by Tom Hallock. A few other photos of Dr. Hallock's 2012 class are here, here and Heading back, on Salt Creek here.

Tom Hallock (white cap)



At 4th Street Bridge



4th Street bridge, 2



Heading back to USFSP



Heading back, 2

Earth Day

Earth Day - Tom Hallock (also seen here) teaches a nature writing class at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. The photos here are from his 2011 class's Earth Day clean-up at Bartlett Park, several blocks from the USFSP campus. Salt Creek touches Bartlett Park, so, of course, the semester-long clean-up of the creek figured in predominantly to the day's festivities.

Poster: You Are Here



Tom Hallock listens to a question from one of the students before several groups start the clean up.



Tom helping with the Salt Creek part of the day's clean-up.



A group of students head off to clean up part of Salt Creek's shoreline.



Some of the students took off on kayaks and row boats to assist in cleaning up the waterway.



How much garbage was picked up in the few hours that the class was here? This is only part of it...



...and here's some more of the day's garbage. If we all clean up after ourselves, maybe some day, this won't be necessary.

On Salt Creek

On Salt Creek - On Earth Day, 2011, Tom Hallock's Nature Writing class (USFSP) went to Bartlett Park in St. Petersburg to continue cleaning up parts of Salt Creek. Here, Hallock and one of the students have just launched in one of the many rowboats and kayaks to clean up the creek.

Salt Creek Trip - Heading Back

Salt Creek Trip - Heading Back - One more photo from Tom Hallock's 2012 Nature Writing Class.  Hallock teaches at USFSP.  This photo, as well as the other Salt Creek Field Trip photos, can also be viewed at http://robinshwedoproductions.weebly.com/photo-documentaries.html .

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Heading Back, II

Heading Back, II - second in a series. Continuation from the January 12 photo of Thomas Hallock's Nature Writing class at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. Hallock's class is one of the electives that figures in heavily for USFSP's Florida Studies' program. In this photo, a student on the way back to USFSP collects another bit of litter in the clean-up of Salt Creek.  This photo, as well as the other Salt Creek Field Trip photo, can also be viewed at http://robinshwedoproductions.weebly.com/photo-documentaries.html .

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Heading Back, On Salt Creek

Heading Back, On Salt Creek - Thomas Hallock (with white cap) is a professor at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. One of the classes he taught during several spring semesters was a Nature Writing class. Students would learn how to write about nature while exploring Salt Creek, a waterway from Lake Maggiore and emptying into Bayboro Harbor in St. Petersburg. One of the field trips taken each spring involved taking kayaks and rowboats through the harbor and onto Salt Creek, where students would help collect litter that had been discarded on the waterway. This photo was taken in 2012 from the 4th Street Bridge in South St. Petersburg, where students discussed what they had noticed so far, and where they then turned around for the return trip back to USFSP.

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