Have you ever held hands with an alligator? If you have, you’d know that the American Alligator has five toes…
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Alligator Blue 208
“Alligator Blue 208″… No, that isn’t a play called out by a college football quarterback. It is the identification given…
Paddling the Okefenokee from Maul Hammock to Big Water
The morning of April 20, 2024, we launched out from the Maul Hammock shelter and began day 2 of our…
Return of the American Alligator
“There was a time when alligators had come so close to extinction that their critical link in the ecosystem could…
Okefenokee – home to the long-legged wading birds
Practically every species of Southeastern wading bird and waterfowl visits or is a permanent resident in the Okefenokee. Included are…
Hike Along the Suwannee River Sill, Part 2
Rather than give up in frustration and leave The Sill for another location because of the low water levels, I…
Hike Along the Suwannee River Sill, Part 1
After a 5-hour drive from my hometown in Athens, Georgia, my tires finally rolled over the boundary line onto the…
Few animals escape the jaws of an alligator
Alligators generally prey upon animals they can swallow whole, using gravity to help him go down. Fish, turtles, snakes, frogs,…
Okefenokee Swamp Pig Frog, Lithobates grylio
Pig Frog, Lithobates grylio, photographed swimming in the dark tannin blackwater of the Okefenokee Swamp near the Maul Hammock Shelter.…
Paddling with the Okefenokee Alligators
American Alligator along the canoe trail in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. Sunday, April 16, 2023. Location: Suwannee Middle…
Okefenokee Photography Project by William Wise 