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…

Off the backside of the Chesser Homestead in the Okefenokee Swamp there is a dead-end trail named Ridley’s Island Trail.…

From naturalist Francis Harper’s journal during his first visit to the Okefenokee Swamp in May 1912: “In the late afternoon…

Some may wonder why I have made so many trips to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. I’m in love. That’s…

The American Alligator is perfectly designed for the swamp habitats that they frequent. The eyes and nostrils protrude above the…

My Okefenokee Swamp journal, October 25, 2022… A few weeks before my October 2022 trip, I was told by a…

I made my first visit to the Okefenokee Swamp in 1997. I wasn’t able set foot within the refuge again…

From naturalist Francis Harper’s journal during his first visit to the Okefenokee Swamp; May 1912. “The run passed between lines…

What lurks beneath those waters? That question rolls in the mind as one attempts to peer through the blackwater of the…