This is a three-day canoe trip directly across the largest freshwater swamp in the world and one of the largest wildernesses in the Southeast, the Okefenokee. If you're squeamish about swamps, you shouldn't be. The water in the swamp comes from numerous artesian wells...with plenty of clean natural water. It's also located far away from industrial sites...so the air is always fresh and clean.
There are two Okefenokee trips listed on the GO website this spring - this trip and one in late April. Both trips cross the middle of the swamp, and will be reserved for our group; so for the most part we'll see no other people except our group for the three-day trip. There are few trails as long as this one in the southeast, whether you are hiking, biking, or canoeing, where this is the case. Both trips use wooden platforms above the swamp on which to set up our tents and spend the night. The trip leader will provide a large mosquito net tent where meals can be prepared. Also, both trips, at one point, will travel through some of the most magnificent groves of old-growth Cypress in the southeast in the headwaters of the Suwannee River.
The highlights of this canoe trip in mid-April will be (1) paddling 32 miles over three days, (2) crossing extensive swamp prairie habitat, with large numbers of Sandhill Cranes and Wood Storks, (3) camping on the shore of some of the largest lakes in the swamp, and (4) viewing numerous prairie flowers and migrating birds. See the description of the late April Okefenokee trip for the highlights of that outing.
The number of canoeists will be limited to 12, since the wooden platforms we sleep on will not comfortably accommodate more than this number. Some participants will be coming from the Atlanta, GA area for the trip, so if you would like to drive or fly into that city, arrangements can be made to stay at a trip member's home prior to the trip and share a ride down to the swamp and back. Contact the trip leader for fees associated with this trip.
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