According naturalist Francis Harper, when “a boat or a bear passes over a watery Prairie, the bonnet leaves in the…
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Okefenokee Southeastern Five-lined Skink
It was a bit of a surprise to find this skink at the Bluff Lake overnight shelter platform in the…
Okefenokee Yellow Trumpet Pitcher Plants
While paddling the green trail from Kingfisher Landing to the Bluff Lake shelter on April 17, 2023, we found several…
American Alligator on Billy’s Lake, Okefenokee Swamp
American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. Sunday, April 16, 2023. Location: Billy’s Lake; N30.83204° W82.35892° Cloudy…
The Ugly Swamp
My wife has never accompanied my daughter and me on an Okefenokee excursion. She isn’t really one for roughing it…
Holding Hands with an Alligator
Have you ever held hands with an alligator? If you have, you’d know that the American Alligator has five toes…
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…
Okefenokee Photography Project by William Wise 