LAMORES RECREATIONAL WIZARD travel blog

Our spacious camp site. Notice how there's even room to park the...

Okefenokee Swamp

View of surrounding area

Sign entering The Okefenokee - this is the first lock down area,...

Sign entering Stephen C Foster State Park - this is where the...

View of ... Registration, Gift Shop, and Boat Launch area

Hey Look! No It's not us... It's another Ameri Camp!!

SEE! I told you all that the sites where BIG!

DAMN! Every time I find myself a quite campsite, some RV'er moves...

We'll as long as they don't have any 4-leggers in tow. Perhaps...

RATS! Don't tell me they're going to eat inside now.

Museum & Interpretive Center

Why It's called "LAND OF THE TREMBLING EARTH"

View from boardwalk

Dan taking a stroll down the boardwalk

View from boardwalk

What a heart warming sun ray

Mother Nature Saying... Down with the old, and in with the new!

Great Egret

View of Okefenokee from boardwalk

A view of the 2,100 foot boardwalk

Mushrooms growing from the fallen tree

Look at all the mushrooms

Dan standing at the end of the boardwalk

Art & Austin

Deborah, Austin & Art

Austin cutting up along the trail

Sign along the boardwalk

Road leading in to Suwanee Canal Recreation Area

Just relaxing around the campsite - Colton & Art

Colton

Colton, Austin & Art

Deborah & Austin

Art

Art finally admitting RVing isn't that bad after all

Deborah & Dan - they are wishing they were in the chairs...

Colton - sitting back & relaxing with a cold drink

Canal leading out to The Okefenokee Swamp

End of Highway 177

Boat only access here on in

Guide for the boat tour

Our 1st view of Okefenokee Swamp

Soft Shell Turtle

Red eared Slider

Dan enjoying the ride

Anything less than 10 horsepower allowed

View of the surrounding banks

"TheTtrembling Earth" This consist of peat moss & over time vegitation will...

Beautiful day shot of the moon

Cypress Tree

Navigation sign in the swamp

Gator!

Check ou the dragonfly in front of the gator

Gators are everywhere

Great Egret flying away

This is where all the birds were

Yep, just hanging out in the tree tops

Look at all the ibis

Blue heron along the bank

Great Egret

On the boat tour - It looks like Art is up to...

Deborah & Colton

2 red ear sliders hanging out

Birds, Birds & more Birds

This is a good sign - it lets you know you're still...

The end to a great boat tour

Boat for rent along the banks

Another gator sighting

Turtles are all over here

Another turtle

See - another turtle

Walk along the trail

Brush along the trail

Spring in the South

View of ... Check In, Gift Shop, and Boat Launch area from...

Tall Pines

Austin checking out the play area

A moment of silence

This silence is rare & we were happy with the moment

Art - like father... like son

Austin sliding at the playground

Playing on the monkey bars

Playing on the monkey bars still

Deborah checking out her camera

Deborah & Austin - he is aggravating his mom

Deborah checking her photos

Deborah in our RV

Grandpa, Austin & Grandma

Grandpa, Austin, Grandma & Mom

Austin asking Grandma if he can stay after his mom & dad...

Dorothy giving Austin a hard time with his request

Austin is happy with the result

Waiting for Deborah to pick Austin up at the Super Walmart in...


Stephen C Foster State Park




Okefenokee Swamp




Stephen C Foster State Park website


FAMILY RVING


Upon traveling down Highway 177 you come across the sign called Okefenokee Wildlife Refuge "Note: plan on making it to this point prior to sunset" this gate & the the gate to Stephen C Foster State Park are locked at night (17 miles apart) and no traffic is a to enter or leave after the gates are locked. Our first night entering the park & we missed the turn into the campground and came upon a flock of deer to the left side of us, we arrived at the registration building to find it already closed but there was a card with our name on it along with 2 other registered guest. After getting our card we headed back to the campsite area and the deer that we passed earlier were still there only this time they were on the same side of the highway as we were, close enough that Dorothy could have reached out & petted one. Why is it when? That best photo op comes around no one has a camera ready to go or avaliable.


Excited about seeing wildlife we were still racing the sun to try & figure out which campsite was ours. Dorothy not wanting to waste anymore time on trying to decifer the card that had our name and the letter R on it, she got out and asked the campground host. We learned that they used a color code system & you would take any open site with that matching color on it (R=Red). Still not wanting to waste time we pulled in to the first avaliable site we saw, but later discovered it was an excellent choice (Site#4).


Friday morning when we woke up, Dan discovered he did not have any coffee, so we headed to the Trading Post at the campground only to discover they had coffee filters but were out of coffee. So we headed to town only to find out the closest grocery store was over 40 miles away (in Homerville). We found ourselves at a little grocery store named Harvey's - upon entering the store employees & shoppers alike were all asking if we were new in town, which place did you buy, etc..... It was quite obvious we were in a small town where everyone knows everyone, it's nice to know that places like this still exists to this day.


On Saturday- Deborah, Art, Austin & Colton joined us for the night & we signed up for a boat tour that is provided at the park. They also have boat & canoe rentals if you don't want to go on the tour. After taking the boat tour all of us headed to the nature trail.


On Sunday- Deborah, Art & Colton left to go home. Before leaving Art was asked if he would do this again & his answer was yes. They had a great time & said they would like to go with us again. That left the night to Grandpa, Grandma & Austin and we signed up for a moonlight hike with the ranger. Which turned out to be very interesting & we all learned the different techniques that animals use to see & find food in the night.


We all had a GREAT time and there is still more that we want to explore here and will be coming back in the future.


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