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With James "Alex" Alexander

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Stephen C. Foster State Park

Travel Blog 368: Yellow-Bellied and Yellow-Rumped

Okefenokee Swamp Park to Stephen C. Foster State Partk

We are volunteering at the Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge headquarters in far southeast Georgia, 11 miles from the town of Folkston and within a holler of Florida. The north entrance is the Swamp Park near Waycross, a 40-minute drive from Folkston, and a 70-minute drive from Folkston to the west entrance at Stephen C. Foster State Park, 17 miles east of Fargo.

Swamp Park Boat Tour
Our boss took us for a field trip to explore the Swamp Park outside of Waycross. We took the recommended three-hour Swamp Experience: Boat-Train-Nature Show Package. Being part of the refuge, our entrance fee was waived. However, the public can do the same package for $30, an excellent bargain. The Swamp Park is an enjoyable destination for everyone, but an especially good place for kids who can have a nature experience and fun at the same time.

Here is a shot of the park train, a yellow-bellied slider turtle, and a gator near a turtle.

Swamp Park Train

Yellow-Belied Slider Turtle

Swamp Park Gator and Turtle

I eavesdropped on the gator—turtle conversation. Here it is what I heard. Sneaky gator.

Swamp Park Gator and Turtle Cartoon

https://okeswamp.org/okefenokee-swamp-park/

Chesser Homestead
On Sundays, Jan and I give tours of the Chesser Homestead, one of the early pioneer families that braved the heat, humidity, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, yellow flies, mosquitos, no-see-ums, scorpions, fire ants, ticks, chiggers, venomous snakes, poisonous spiders, bears, panthers, starvation, illness, and getting lost in the swamp never to be found. It is an interesting story and a fun one to share with visitors.

Here is a photo of the entrance gate, a view of the homestead, Jan preparing for a tour, a yellow-rumped warbler, our good friends Bonnie and Mark who visited us, and a timber rattler who lives under the house.

Homestead Gate

Chesser Homestead

Jan at Chesser Homestead

Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Bonnie and Mark at Chesser Homestead

Timber Rattlesnake

A Few Other Pics from the Refuge

Blue Dasher Dragonfly 2

Male Blue Dasher Dragonfly

Chokeberry

Monarch on Chesser Boardwalk

See you next time with more from the Swamp.