Lake Martin Voice Realty
Pictures And Video Of Aquapalooza Setup – Lake Martin
Here’s what the Lake Martin Aquapalooza / Alan Jackson stage, boat anchor lines, and swimming area looks like on Friday July 24, 2009.
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The music schedule is:
- 11am – Nationwide Coverage
- 12:45pm – Jypsi
- 2pm - Caitlin and Will
- 3:15pm - Matt Stillwell
- 4:30pm - Carter Twins
- 6pm to 7:30pm – Alan Jackson
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PLEASE NOTE – the entire area west of Kowaliga / Highway 63 Bridge is a IDLE SPEED only. The police WILL pull you over and give you a ticket.
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The stage:
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More Pictures: Slideshow of Lake Martin Aquapalooza Pictures
Also: Pictures of I Love Lake Martin Flickr Group
Notes to the wise: PLEASE make sure that you have at least one sober assistant to help the designated driver (who also should be sober). Make sure that you comply with all Alabama boating laws and regulations.
The best way to get pulled over is to drive recklessly or above idle speed in the concert area. In the 10 minutes while I was taking the above video and pictures, I saw 3 boats / sea doos get pulled over for going too fast. I have also heard of several (deserved) arrests in the past couple of weeks, so be warned, the police will take no guff from wise cracking hoolligans. Have fun, but be safe and be respectful of the law. They are trying to save our lives.
Concert was FANTAStIC !!! THANKS to all involved.
But the ride home was to say the least, a DISASTER,
As we left the bigger boats sped by, in what was asked over and over again to be a NO WAKE ZONE,
Just 200 yards or so from the bridge
we all but sunk on our pontoon with a 2 foot wave that came up over the front of our boat and had everything, including ice chests flying to the back of the boat and the next one took the front of the boat down into the water and had us all on the back of the boat way up in the air and thinking we were about to turn over. … The rest of the hour long trip was almost the same, fighting the waves from the faster boats,
there is no sense in that, becuz’ if people had gone slower OR IF THE 2 MARINE PATROLBOATS HAD HAD SOME HELP TO SLOW PEOPLE DOWN… oUR NEIGHBORS ARRIVED HOME WHEN WE DID AND HAD EXPERIENCED THE SAME… wE, LIKE OTHERS WILL LEAVE BEFORE IT ENDS NEXT TIME TO AVOID THIS !!! what a shame ………
TO END SUCH A GREAT TIME LIKE THAT….
@sandee, yeah, I know what you mean, anytime you have boats + night = caution. We left about 5 PM to beat the traffic before Alan Jackson came on. It’s a shame that more people didn’t heed the no wake zones. I saw the police pull over several people, starting on Thursday, for that offense. I guess at night it’s harder to enforce.