Stephen C. Foster State Park, Fargo, GA

Camp in Swamp in the AM fog

6/23-6/25/14 Stephen C Foster State Park is a Georgia State Park in a National Wildlife Refuge, in the Okefenokee Swamp. What a wonderful place! The camp is 16 miles into the swamp at the end of the road, the only way to go further is by kayak, canoe, or boat. It's a quiet peaceful place where you can see deer, bear, gators and birds but few people. We opted to take a guided boat tour, we were the only customers on the boat, with Micheal our guide. We wanted to do an evening guided canoe, kayak trip but that requires 4 people and we were the only ones interested. Hence, we decided to rent a canoe and paddled for 3 hours into and out of the swamp. It's a mite unsettling to be in a small canoe, close to the water with gators swimming about, some of them almost as long as your canoe. Yes, folks, we are not in Idaho anymore.

Okefenokee Swamp

The Bosler's and the Swamp

Okefenokee Swamp is the headwaters for the Suwannee River and we paddled to the River Narrows, the start of the River. It was awesome! Okefenokee means "trembling earth, and the Park is called the Land of the Trembling Earth. The Indians called it that because as vegetation moves out the "islands" become a form of land but springy and movable. We actually walked on Mixon's Hummock one such island. The day we arrived we saw numerous deer, birds, and the all present gator. We had intended to rent a motorboat also, and see the swamp in the evening but as we cleared the channel out to the swamp there was considerable lightening and it's faithful thunder, better part of valor, we decide to give up on that boat trip.