Okefenokee Photography by William Wise. A nature photo journal exploration of Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp, the Land of Trembling Earth, one of the largest blackwater swamps in North America. The alligators, birds, snakes and wildlife of Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and Stephen C Foster State Park. -- "What a wildly wonderful world, God! You made it all, with Wisdom at Your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations." Psalms 104 The Message “Every cloud has a silver lining.” While I’m typically not one to use happy little inspirational poster quotes, this one held true for me in May 2020. The coronavirus shutdown of the entire world gave many of us weeks of free time as we isolated at home. I chose to take isolation to the extreme and made a second 2020 trip to the Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia. There were only about twenty occupied campsites within the sixty-plus RV lots of the Stephen C Foster State Park. We all had plenty of room and privacy. And consider that us few campers were just about the only people within the Okefenokee’s 438,000 acres, that’s some serious social distancing! As I suspected, visiting at a date further into the summer, the “environmental challenges” (as my daughter coined them) were greater than our usual early spring excursions. It was quite a bit more humid, the sun rose earlier, higher and hotter than in March, and the armies of gnats and flies were mustering their ranks in greater numbers. Because of the heat, most of the alligators were now spending the majority of the mid-day submerged in the swamp waters.
Still, it is always a wonderful time to explore the Okefenokee. I concentrated a bit more on plants and “bugs” than in the past in order to contribute some diversity of Okefenokee observations to my iNaturalist Project and Okefenokee Blog.
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