Southeastern, GA: Alligators, turtles, white-tailed deer, raccoons, pileated woodpeckers, resident water fowl, water lilies, swamp grasses and miles and miles of quiet, deep, dark-black brackish water in a wonderfully quiet remote natural area. A wild, woolly,...
How to REALLY Catch an Alligator!
As told from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. You’ll need some implements: —A Good Pair of Binoculars —A Pair of Tweezers —A Matchbox —A Green Spot First you find a pleasant spot down by the edge of a swamp where the afternoon sun is good for sun bathing. Alligators...
How Not to Catch an Alligator!
A True Story as told from the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. There are some people who are fools. No other way to explain actions people sometimes take—I mean foolish risks they take, inexplicably. Not the acts of older teenage boys that are based on growth...
Eventide: Botany Bay Plantation Wildlife Management Area
Edisto Island, South Carolina The rays of the setting sun tint everything in sight with a warm orange glow as I meander northeast on Botany Bay Road into the Botany Bay Plantation. Colors intensify as the long shadows fall and tree trunks become orange columns under...
Follow Your Dream… with the Courage of Youth.
My new friends, Holly and Chris, a young couple traveling in Florida during a college break attempting to avoid the northern cold spells, happened in, late at night, to the campsite beside me at Huguenot Memorial County Park in Jacksonville last week. My little dog,...
The Kindness of Strangers
Most people you meet are really helpful and kind, or want to be, especially people that enjoy camping. Some will go to great lengths to help you if they believe in what you are doing or if they see the tragedy or danger of your plight. Generosity can be easy for some...
INVASION of the Big BUGS
Edisto Beach Campground is a quiet little place 57 or so miles south of Charleston, SC. The community of Edisto Beach is comprised of locals, full-timers, part-timers and vacationers and residents. A friendly place with lots of history including plantations, slave...