Okefenokee Nature Lovers Paradise

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

Minnies Lake, Cypress Trees, Spanish Moss, Spatterdock Lily Pads, Okefenokee canoe kayak trail, Okefenokee NWR, Stephen C. Foster State Park, Georgia. March 2017. Photo #201703186_DT89456680 © William Wise - Dreamstime.com

“This magnificent Swamp, one of the very largest, if not the largest, in the entire United States, is truly a nature lovers paradise. The scenic beauty and grandeur, with its changing vistas of island, dense bays overgrown with moss covered trees, open prairies covered with lily pads of incomparable beauty, lakes – from the miniature pools to the great ponds – infested with alligators, reptiles and fish, giant trees reaching far into the skies, and over all the flitting to and fro of the hundreds of water birds of every species, delights and thrills the heart of anyone who has a spark of the artistic in his nature.”
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Excerpt from the 1926 book History of the Okefenokee Swamp, by A.S. McQueen & Hamp Mizell

Big gator basking in sun on Cypress stump, Maidencane Swamp Grass, Okefenokee canoe kayak trail, Okefenokee NWR, Stephen C. Foster State Park, Georgia

Double-crested Cormorant, Phalacrocorax auritus, Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Stephen C Foster State Park, Georgia

Basking River Slider Turtles on log, Billys Lake on Suwanee River, Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Stephen C Foster State Park, Georgia