It's An Okefenokee Day: The Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center

Eric and I drive west to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge on the eastern side of the Okefenokee Swamp.

We turn off the Okefenokee 
Parkway & drive to the
Okefenokee National 
Wildlife Refuge.






Okefenokee means "land of the trembling earth."  Many Indian tribes hunted and fished in this area before they were driven out by Europeans in the 1700s and by Americans in the the 1800s.  In 1937 the US Fish and Wildlife Service acquired most of the 400,000 acres of swamp to create a  wildlife sanctuary.

The Richard S. Bolt

Visitor Center

This visitor center engages
children with educational
displays.

The Kids Activity Table

Set a spell & learn about life
in the Okefenokee Swamp.

Life below the surface

of the water in the

Okefenokee Swamp.

Visitors see the belly of an

 Alligator, Cypress Tree

 roots & Lily Pads.

A preserved Alligator
head

Eric & I watched an introductory

film on the complex environments

that make up the Okefenokee

 Swamp.

Shop for souvenirs.








After picking up a few brochures, Eric and I set out for a look for wildlife along Swamp Island Drive. We are going to visit the Chesser Island Homestead and walk the Chesser Island Boardwalk and climb to the top of the observation tower to look for wildlife.