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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 Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre, 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 and is the largest blackwater swamp in North America.
The swamp was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1974.
As a child, I heard so many tales about the Okefenokee Swamp ... people getting lost in it ... it was a place I had always wanted to visit.
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On March 16-17, 2011; Jim and Judy took a trip to the Okefenokee Swamp in south Georgia. We drove from Valdosta to Fargo and St. George on highway 94. In St. George we turned north on highway 121. We arrived at the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge just south of Folkston. We ate lunch in the Okefenokee Adventures Cafe, toured the Visitor Center, and took a 90-minute boat tour in the canal dug around 1895 to 1900 to attempt to haul out cypress timber. The canal didn't work; so, a railroad came and were successful at hauling out timber. We left the refuge and drove north to Folkston and enjoyed visiting the Folkston Funnel, a high-tech shelter for observing, logging, photographing, and videoing north and south bound trains. Finally we drove further north to Waycross to spend the night at a Hampton Inn which had complimentary high-speed Internet that worked. We enjoyed a dinner of blackened fish at Cedar River Seafood Restaurant in Waycross.
We spent Wednesday night in Waycross, GA and took a round-a-bout way home. We drove to Blackshear, GA and saw the old home where Jim's grandparents lived. Then we drove to Alma, GA where his first cousin had lived before he died as a teenager. Next we drove through Nicholls and Douglas, GA. We came back home through Pearson, Lakeland, and Hahira. We ate lunch-supper at Smok 'n Pig in Valdosta.
Die Bäume mit dem Spanish Moss werde ich zu Hause echt vermissen. Der Guide hat auch erklärt warum es Spanish Moss heißt, aber dank seines South Georgia-Akzent hab ich wirklich wenig verstanden : ) Deshalb kann ich es auch nicht weitergeben...
Offener Sumpf : ) Okefenokee ist übrigens indianisch und heißt übersetzt " Land of the trembling earth". Weil es nirgendswo feste Erde gibt. Man kann zwar an manchen Stellen laufen, aber das ist nur ein Gebilde aus dichten Pflanzen und schwankt im Wasser hin und her.