Excerpt from the 1926 Okefenokee Swamp journal of Hamp Mizell: “We arose early the next morning, before daylight, and before the … More
Category: Okefenokee Nature Journal
Up the Suwannee Middle Fork
An excerpt from my March 2015 Okefenokee nature journal: Thursday, 9:12 AM – The number of large basking gators quickly … More
Colorful Baby Alligators
An excerpt from my 2015 Okefenokee nature journal: On our first day in the Okefenokee, the number of huge gators … More
A Place of Memories
A passage from my Okefenokee journal on Mixon’s Hammock, March 5, 2017: After tensely navigating through over a mile of … More
Little Blue Heron Leap Frog
An Okefenokee photography journal entry from March 6, 2017: Monday, 9:25 AM – Frustrated by my pursuit of a quality … More
Trees So Lofty
Excerpt from William Bartram’s Travels, published in 1791: “On the West side it was bordered round with low marshes, and invested … More
Cypress Knee Bend
Passing north beyond Minnie’s Lake along the Suwannee River Middle Fork trail, the kayak channel constricts through a more mature … More
Swamp Sentinels
An excerpt from my March 11, 2015 Okefenokee nature journal: Our boat moved slowly up the canal until reaching a … More
Song of the Okefenokee
An excerpt from Suwannee River, Strange Green Land by Cecile Hulse Matschat, 1938. “In the evening, or after a warm rain, the … More
Okefenokee Wood Duck Pursuit
By day three of our 2017 trip, several of the birds I had hoped to see were checked off the … More