What to see at Okefenokee

Thought I’d share a few of my favorite shots from a scouting excursion at Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in southern Georgia. What was there to see? I half expected to see the place loaded with alligators and pristine swamp landscape, but in February at the recent fire-ravaged east entrance, there was mainly vast stands of mature longleaf pine forest along the Chesser Island Homestead Trail. It was beautiful scenery for a foreigner, but just one of the many ecosystems that comprise the Okefenokee Swamp.