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The Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat-filled wetland straddling the Georgia–Florida line in the United States. A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness. The Okefenokee Swamp is considered to be one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia. The Okefenokee is the largest "blackwater" swamp in North America.
The swamp was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
At 438,000 acres, the Okefenokee Swamp is the largest swamp in North America. Go to www.facebook.com/ExploreGeorgia to Test Your Georgia I.Q.
Rules say don't get too close. Tough to follow rules when the canoe channel is only about 12 feet wide!
With all the light pouring in thru the cracks this old cabin probably did a poor job keeping out the mosquitoes and yellow flies.
Driving from Lake City, Florida, up to Waycross, Georgia.
The next day it was still raining, and it rained all day. Normal people would have stayed indoors.
But no ... we drove up to Georgia, to the Okefenokee Swamp.
West Mims Wildfire at Okefenokee NWR. Photos taken during a strategic firing operation along GA 177 in The Pocket near Stephen C Foster SP. Photo Credit: Josh O'Connor - USFWS
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During our recent beach trip, the other dads and I took the kids to the Okefenokee Swamp to feed them to the alligators for a day trip. The place is huge! We took a boat tour through a portion of the swamp, watched a nature show, and then finished with a short train tour.
The wonderworld of Okefenokee is a significant part of America’s heritage, a beautifully preserved segment of what was here when America began.
Headwaters of the Suwannee and St. Mary’s Rivers, Okefenokee is a National Wildlife Refuge which covers nearly a half million acres.
Okefenokee Swamp Park is a convenient point of entry and a magnificent show-window for the “Land of the Trembling Earth.
We first tried to go to the Okefenokee Swamp in 1985 but were told it was closed due to a drought. In 2004, we considered trying go there again on another vacation through the Southeast, but it had been another dry year. Finally, in 2018, we were able to go.
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West Mims Wildfire at Okefenokee NWR. Photos taken during a strategic firing operation along GA 177 in The Pocket near Stephen C Foster SP. Photo Credit: Josh O'Connor - USFWS
West Mims Wildfire at Okefenokee NWR. Photos taken during a strategic firing operation along GA 177 in The Pocket near Stephen C Foster SP. Photo Credit: Josh O'Connor - USFWS
West Mims Wildfire at Okefenokee NWR. Photos taken during a strategic firing operation along GA 177 in The Pocket near Stephen C Foster SP. Photo Credit: Josh O'Connor - USFWS
Water covered in lilies and trees cover in Spanish moss, the swamp lands of the south are home to all kinds of critters that fly, swim, crawl, or slither.
Okefenokee NWR, Georgia
Okefenokee Swamp Park, Waycross, Georgia.
The next day it was still raining, and it rained all day. Normal people would have stayed indoors.
But no ... we drove up to Georgia, to the Okefenokee Swamp.
The entry to the Park includes a boat trip ... although we appeared to be the only two visitors that day, they still ran it. It was brilliant ... and really wet and swampy!
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January in the Okefenokee swamp, in south Georgia -- where the dark tannin-stained water is as reflective as the finest mirror. Named for "the land of the trembling earth," the Okefenoke, as we affectionately call it, has large "islands" of matted springy vegetation on which grow bushes and even trees. But it's not solid earth, so you'd best explore it in a boat -- and with a guide, if you don't want to get lost. There are plenty of alligators around, of course -- but in January, no mosquitoes yet.Just learned that someone set a fire and 500+ acres recently burned -- but this is the world's largest swamp, and that is just a small part of it. Entering the mysterious Okefenokee is like entering an alien world.
West Mims Wildfire at Okefenokee NWR. Photos taken during a strategic firing operation along GA 177 in The Pocket near Stephen C Foster SP. Photo Credit: Josh O'Connor - USFWS
Okefenokee Swamp Park, Waycross, Georgia.
The next day it was still raining, and it rained all day. Normal people would have stayed indoors.
But no ... we drove up to Georgia, to the Okefenokee Swamp.
The entry to the Park includes a boat trip ... although we appeared to be the only two visitors that day, they still ran it. It was brilliant ... and really wet and swampy!
The trees, bald cypress (Taxodium distichum), are deciduous conifers that shed their leaves in winter. The swamp goes on for 30 to 50 kilometers in every direction from here. Most of it is less open than this.
Two well known rivers begin in the Okefenokee: The St. Mary’s River and the Suwannee River.
The St. Mary’s River flows all the way to the Atlantic Ocean and is 190 miles long.
The Suwannee River is the principle outlet of the swamp. The Suwannee flows from the west side of the swamp and empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Cedar Key, Florida. The Suwannee River is 280 miles long.
A very long time ago, the coast of Georgia was in a different place. It was much farther inland, and the part of land that is now the Okefenokee Swamp was just the ocean floor. A sandbar developed out in the ocean, and it cut off this area from the rest of the ocean. This made a kind of pool of water that was separate from the ocean, and that pool filled with rainwater and runoff water, and became a pool of fresh water (instead of the salt water it used to be).
There are many lakes scattered throughout the Okefenokee. Sixty of these lakes are big enough to be named. Some are forty feet deep! Others are only two or three feet deep.
Average annual temperature is 68 degrees F. The average annual rainfall is 60 inches.
Rainfall accounts for approximately 95% of the water in the Okefenokee Swamp. 80% of the rainfall is returned to the atmosphere by evapotranspiration, leaving only 20% to find its way down the Suwannee and St. Mary’s Rivers.
Okefenokee Swamp
Waycross, Georgia