After a 5-hour drive from my hometown in Athens, Georgia, my tires finally rolled over the boundary line onto the … More
Category: Okefenokee Swamp
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, … More
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. … More
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 … More
Alligator on Minnie’s Lake, Okefenokee Swamp
An American Alligator peering from the blackwater of the Okefenokee Swamp. Photographed near Millie’s Lake along the Suwannee River Middle … More
Camouflaged Okefenokee Brown Watersnake
While the prairies of the eastern side of the Okefenokee Swamp are wide open and sunlit, much of the western … More
Okefenokee Alligator GPS Tracker Study
One of the American Alligators with a GPS tracker from the University of Georgia’s Coastal Ecology Lab research project in … More
Okefenokee Swamp American Alligator
American Alligator swimming the blackwater of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia. Sunday, April 16, 2023. Location: north of Minnie’s … More
Photographing the Wild Okefenokee
Okefenokee Journal; Saturday, April 20, 2024 – The brightening sky and calls of the birds woke me in my tent. … More
Pig Frog in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
The Pig Frog, Lithobates grylio, is a common amphibian inhabitant of the Okefenokee Swamp. My daughter and I learned how common … More