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Early this January, I spent three days paddling and camping inside the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. This was my fourth trip into the swamp. Joining me for the journey was my father. I was going to write a longer article on the trip, but never got around to it, so I'll just post photos and some comments. The first day was lovely. We camped at Roundtop platform in the middle of Chase Prairie, which was beautiful (and my favorite spot so far for camping in the swamp as you had views in all directions). That night around 4 AM, a storm came through and the lightning (which I wasn't able to capture by camera) was incredible. It rained on and off most of the second day. We camped the second night on a platform in Mizell Prairie. On the third day, we paddled back to where we started. Click on any of the smaller photos to enlarge
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A beautiful spot.
ReplyDeleteThere's a beauty to every landscape, even a swamp. Great pictures.
ReplyDeleteLoved all your photos and enjoyed seeing the gators. Though we have plenty of egrets and blue herons on our pond, we've yet to see one of those (thank goodness!).
ReplyDeleteThat red sky is gorgeous!
So nice to share this journey with your father - and you got a photograph of him too!
ReplyDeleteI enlarged all of the photo's and what a great collection but the colours in the afterglow ... AMAZING
Great pictures, thank you for sharing them
All the best Jan
A trip very high on my bucket list!
ReplyDeleteReally beautiful shots and nice you went with your Dad. Really.
ReplyDeletewonderful capturing !
ReplyDeletethis refuge sounds amazing place to visit
When I was looking at the photo of the muck on the paddle, I thought, "Wonder if they saw any gators?" And indeed, you did.
ReplyDeleteLovely that you and your dad had that trip together.
The After Glow shot is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteYou took some amazing pictures. That setting sun with the pink and purple sky is so pretty. Don't the gators make you nervous?
ReplyDeleteI have never had a problem with the gators but I respect them, don't poke them in the eye or anything, keep your distance and enjoy them.
DeleteI'm fascinated by so much of this post. (1) That's your father, at the ripe young age of 80? Wow. Remarkable. (2) the name Okefenokee. <-What's not to love?
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures. Looks beautiful there. The gators would be intimidating for me, but I enjoyed seeing the birds, and the afterglow shot is phenomenal.
ReplyDeleteLove the one of the paddle. It's the sort of photo that tells a story all by itself. :-)
ReplyDeleteGreetings from London.
Great pictures. Paddling through muck wouldn't be fun, but that sure is a neat image.
ReplyDeleteWhat fabulous photos! I agree with Connie I'd be a little nervous about the gators, especially 100s, lol. Amazing sky.
ReplyDeleteLooks like an adventure! Your photos are really good. I'd advise everyone to enlarge them. You have a good eye.
ReplyDeleteThese are some fantastic photos of an obviously spectacular day. Nature is so good for the soul!
ReplyDeletewonderful adventures and amazing sky shot!
ReplyDeleteWow, such gorgeous photos. Looks like a wonderful place!
ReplyDeleteAnd yet all I can think about is that story HEAP! from the old MAD Magazine, and their riff on the Ofeeeefenokeeekeeekeeke Swamp :-)
I used to read MAD, but don't remember that one :(
DeleteI blogged about it once!
Deletehttp://thegirdleofmelian.blogspot.ch/2011/10/round-of-words-in-80-days-and-heap.html
Thanks for sharing these fascinating photos of a place that is unknown to me except by name, Sage. I have visited Loxahatchee and the Everglades, so I can imagine the Okefenokee. I'd be scared to sleep on one of those platforms! I hope you had mosquito nets. It always fascinated me to see alligators partially submerged ~ They look like bits of old tires.
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