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The last few minutes of our trip we came back to see If we could find any of the smaller alligators to photograph in the 1st cove we had visited earlier in the day , these shots made the trip for me!
This is the last shot I got before my camera died. Not the batteries, the whole camera crapped out. Although, this was a lovely morning view from the platform.
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, September 10, 2021, 1:57 p.m.: A large swamp area: A large section of open swamp is seen to the southwest from the top level of the Chesser Island observation tower.
Stephan C. Foster State Park, Georgia, September 12, 2021, 9:37 a.m.: Web crawler: Anyone walking the trails in the Okefenokee swamp is going to meet up with these spiders. They are beneficial and should be allowed to go about their natural lives. The body on this one is only about one-half inch wide.
The Okefenokee was formed over the past 6,500 years by the accumulation of peat in a shallow basin on the edge of an ancient Atlantic coastal terrace, the geological relic of a Pleistocene estuary. The swamp is bordered by Trail Ridge, a strip of elevated land believed to have formed as coastal dunes or an offshore barrier island. The St. Marys River and the Suwannee River both originate in the swamp. The Suwannee River originates as stream channels in the heart of the Okefenokee Swamp and drains at least 90 percent of the swamp's watershed southwest toward the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Marys River, which drains only 5 to 10 percent of the swamp's southeastern corner, flows south along the western side of Trail Ridge, through the ridge at St. Marys River Shoals, and north again along the eastern side of Trail Ridge before turning east to the Atlantic.