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

Minnie’s Lake Lounging Gator

As we paddle near Minnie’s Lake in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, the canoe run widens, the Cypress trees overhead … More

An Alluring Attraction

An excerpt from the 1895 adventure novel, In the Okefenokee: A Story of War Time and the Great Georgia Swamp: “To … More

Long Time Mythical Land

​In 1875, The Atlanta Constitution funded and documented an exploration of the Okefenokee Swamp. Over the next months, newspapers across the nation … More

Okefenokee Swamp: A Great Rain Basin

Which slow-moving, murky, southern river is it that feeds the Okefenokee Swamp? How many creeks and spring must there be … More

The Okefenokee Hunter

Excerpt from Francis Harper’s Mammals of the Okefinokee Swamp, published March 1927: “​And not the least interesting part of the scene … More

Okefenokee’s Remarkable Landscapes

Excerpt from the 1926 History of the Okefenokee Swamp by AS McQueen and Hamp Mizell: “​The prairies are the favorite resort for … More

Where the Wandering Seminole Lives

Excerpt from Travels by William Bartram, published in 1791: “HOW happily situated is this retired spot of earth! What an elisium it … More

Take it Slowly

An excerpt from my March 2017 Okefenokee Nature Journal: Our desire was to reach Big Water, a lake several miles … More