Have you ever read a swamp? Urbanites like me may have read much about the swamp, but don’t have the gift that the Swampers have in reading the details of the Okefenokee. According to the great naturalist Francis Harper – no doubt wisdom he gained from the Okefenokee Swampers – when “a boat or a bear passes over a watery Prairie, the bonnet leaves in the trail remain upturned on one side for several hours afterward. The upturned side of the leaf indicates the direction from which the boat or animal has come.” — Excerpt from Francis Harper’s Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp, published March 1927
Okefenokee Photography Project by William Wise 