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This mother Alligator was very tolerant of visitors and would allow very close approach unless one of her youngsters gave a distress call and then she would advance.

Scanning some older 35mm prints

Okefenokee Swamp pre fire

at Stephen C Foster State Park, GA

Canon Powershot. Okefenokee Swamp, GA. I am now impressed with the macro shots from my newest addition. This camera will definitely replace the Nikon Coolpix P510 when I need a light-weight, go-everywhere camera.

Taken in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia USA

Looking out at the Okefenokee Swamp.

Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia

Heading out into the "Grand Prairie" in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge near Folkston, Georgia, in early May 2015.

 

Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mrk II

Lens: Tamron 70-300mm

 

Post-Processing:

- Lightroom 6/CC

- HDR Merge in LR

- OnOne Perfect Effects:

- Sunshine:Sunglow

- Vignette-Subtle

Savannah & Atlanta Railway 4-6-2 coal burning Pacific # 750, is seen while leading a railfan excursion train over the Okefenokee Swamp trestle across the Suwannee River near Fargo, on its trip from Jacksonville to Valdosta, Georgia, November 1983. The steam engine was assisted with the big excursion train by two Southern Railway F7A diesel electric locomotives. This old steam locomotive was built by the American Locomotive Company in January 1910.

The sound of barred owls echo through as darkness sets in. Alligators begin their nightly hunts. Snakes crawl in search of prey. Frogs start the evening chorus. Night time in the swamps is anything but quiet time.

Okefenokee NWR

Terri and I were approaching our 1st year wedding anniversary and had the chance to spend several days in the Okefenokee Swamp NP. We were in an air-boat and rounded a curve catching sight of this big one!

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.

 

After the boat trip and the train ride there was one more thing that just had to be done ... a walk through the swamp on the boardwalk, to the observation tower.

Okefenokee Swamp, Folkston GA

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.

Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia

Taken in the Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia USA

Okefenokee Swamp Park, está ubicado a 12 millas al sur de Waycross, Georgia, Estados Unidos. Se accede al parque del pantano de Okefenokee tomando la autopista Vereen Bell Memorial Highway hacia el lado sur de Cowhouse Island. Este es el punto de entrada más al norte del Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre Okefenokee.

Canon Powershot. Okefenokee Swamp, GA. I am now impressed with the macro shots from my newest addition. This camera will definitely replace the Nikon Coolpix P510 when I need a light-weight, go-everywhere camera.

 

Okefenokee Swamp, Folkston GA

Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia

March 28, 2018

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.

Okefenokee Swamp

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Infrared Image

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.

 

After the boat trip and the train ride there was one more thing that just had to be done ... a walk through the swamp on the boardwalk, to the observation tower.

 

The view was brilliant from up there ... you get a better idea of just how big the Okefenokee really is. You can't see any end to it ...

okefenokee swamp prairie

Margolies, John,, photographer.

 

Okefenokee Swamp Park sign, Route 1, near Waycross, Georgia

 

1979.

 

1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).

 

Notes:

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.

Margolies category: Gift shop billboard signs.

Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-4).

Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.

Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).

 

Subjects:

Gift shops--1970-1980.

Signs (Notices)--1970-1980.

United States--Georgia--Waycross.

 

Format: Slides--1970-1980.--Color

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110

 

General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01944

 

Call Number: LC-MA05- 1944

 

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.

 

After the boat trip and the train ride there was one more thing that just had to be done ... a walk through the swamp on the boardwalk, to the observation tower.

 

The view was brilliant from up there ... you get a better idea of just how big the Okefenokee really is. You can't see any end to it ...

(Explore! July 28, 2009, best position #274) - thanks to all who viewed/commented/faved!!

 

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.

 

View On Black

 

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.

 

www.okeswamp.com/

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.

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.

 

After the boat trip and the train ride there was one more thing that just had to be done ... a walk through the swamp on the boardwalk, to the observation tower.

 

The view was brilliant from up there ... you get a better idea of just how big the Okefenokee really is. You can't see any end to it ...

 

Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is a flowering plant that grows upon larger trees, commonly the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) in the southeastern United States from Texas and Florida north to southern Arkansas and Virginia. It is also native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America and the West Indies as well as being naturalized in Queensland (Australia) and in French Polynesia.

 

The plant's specific name usneoides means "resembling Usnea", and it indeed closely resembles its namesake Usnea, also known as beard lichen, but in fact Spanish moss is neither a moss nor a lichen. Instead, it is a flowering plant (angiosperm) in the family Bromeliaceae (the Bromeliads) that grows hanging from tree branches in full sun or partial shade.

 

Spanish moss is an epiphyte which absorbs nutrients (especially calcium) and water from the air and rainfall. Spanish moss was once colloquially known as "air plant".[8]

 

While it rarely kills the trees upon which it grows, it lowers their growth rate by reducing the amount of light reaching a tree's own leaves. It also increases wind resistance, which can prove fatal to the host tree in a hurricane.

 

In the southern U.S., the plant seems to show a preference for growth on southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) because of these trees' high rates of foliar mineral leaching (calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus) providing an abundant supply of nutrients to the plant, but it can also colonize other tree species such as sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), crepe-myrtles (Lagerstroemia spp.), other oaks, and even pines.

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.

 

After the boat trip and the train ride there was one more thing that just had to be done ... a walk through the swamp on the boardwalk, to the observation tower.

 

The view was brilliant from up there ... you get a better idea of just how big the Okefenokee really is. You can't see any end to it ...

 

Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is a flowering plant that grows upon larger trees, commonly the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) in the southeastern United States from Texas and Florida north to southern Arkansas and Virginia. It is also native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America and the West Indies as well as being naturalized in Queensland (Australia) and in French Polynesia.

 

The plant's specific name usneoides means "resembling Usnea", and it indeed closely resembles its namesake Usnea, also known as beard lichen, but in fact Spanish moss is neither a moss nor a lichen. Instead, it is a flowering plant (angiosperm) in the family Bromeliaceae (the Bromeliads) that grows hanging from tree branches in full sun or partial shade.

 

Spanish moss is an epiphyte which absorbs nutrients (especially calcium) and water from the air and rainfall. Spanish moss was once colloquially known as "air plant".[8]

 

While it rarely kills the trees upon which it grows, it lowers their growth rate by reducing the amount of light reaching a tree's own leaves. It also increases wind resistance, which can prove fatal to the host tree in a hurricane.

 

In the southern U.S., the plant seems to show a preference for growth on southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) because of these trees' high rates of foliar mineral leaching (calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus) providing an abundant supply of nutrients to the plant, but it can also colonize other tree species such as sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), crepe-myrtles (Lagerstroemia spp.), other oaks, and even pines.

The trees and waterways of the Okefenokee swamp, inside a state park.

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.

 

Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) is a flowering plant that grows upon larger trees, commonly the southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) in the southeastern United States from Texas and Florida north to southern Arkansas and Virginia. It is also native to much of Mexico, Bermuda, the Bahamas, Central America, South America and the West Indies as well as being naturalized in Queensland (Australia) and in French Polynesia.

 

The plant's specific name usneoides means "resembling Usnea", and it indeed closely resembles its namesake Usnea, also known as beard lichen, but in fact Spanish moss is neither a moss nor a lichen. Instead, it is a flowering plant (angiosperm) in the family Bromeliaceae (the Bromeliads) that grows hanging from tree branches in full sun or partial shade.

 

Spanish moss is an epiphyte which absorbs nutrients (especially calcium) and water from the air and rainfall. Spanish moss was once colloquially known as "air plant".[8]

 

While it rarely kills the trees upon which it grows, it lowers their growth rate by reducing the amount of light reaching a tree's own leaves. It also increases wind resistance, which can prove fatal to the host tree in a hurricane.

 

In the southern U.S., the plant seems to show a preference for growth on southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) or bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) because of these trees' high rates of foliar mineral leaching (calcium, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus) providing an abundant supply of nutrients to the plant, but it can also colonize other tree species such as sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), crepe-myrtles (Lagerstroemia spp.), other oaks, and even pines.

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.

 

After the boat trip and the train ride there was one more thing that just had to be done ... a walk through the swamp on the boardwalk, to the observation tower.

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