A fictional but fascinating description of the snake-laden, dark forests of the Okefenokee Swamp from Cecil Hulse Matchat’s 1938 novel,…
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Morning Hike in Okefenokee’s Stephen C Foster State Park
A short morning walk on the trails in the Stephen C Foster State Park within the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge…
Okefenokee Black-crowned Night Heron
There are several year-round resident birds within the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. But some of those “common” birds are much…
Concentrations of Gators
From my October 2022 Okefenokee Journal… Seeing the extremely low waters of the Suwannee River Sill, I began to fear…
Okefenokee Impassible Dense Jungle
Although a work of fiction, the description of the Okefenokee Swamp in Louis Pendleton’s novel is quite accurate! An excerpt…
Finally, an Okefenokee Wood Stork!
One of my goals as an aspiring conservation photographer is to capture as many different species as I can within…
Up the Suwannee River
Okefenokee Swamp journal, October 25, 2022… When I arrived in the Okefenokee on October 25, 2022, I knew the lack…
Shadow of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker
It has been eighty years since an Ivory-billed Woodpecker has been seen in the Okefenokee Swamp. Many have searched with…
A Dead End Trail?
Off the backside of the Chesser Homestead in the Okefenokee Swamp there is a dead-end trail named Ridley’s Island Trail.…
Great Saurian of the Swamp
From naturalist Francis Harper’s journal during his first visit to the Okefenokee Swamp in May 1912: “In the late afternoon…
Okefenokee Photography Project by William Wise 