Georgia State Parks has around 20 parks with floatable lakes. Sylvester Pierce of the Self-Preservation Society is on a mission to paddle all of them.
Peirce has floated five lakes so far and wants to float the rest of them by the end of the year — along with the Chattahoochee River. While doing so, the kayaking instructor, who believes water is healing and therapeutic, wants to get more Black people out on the water.
“Rivers, lakes, streams, oceans are all a part of us,” explained Pierce. “It all moves through us. It all helps our bodies heal.”
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