I grew up in Waycross. My stomping, swapping ground. I moved to the foothills of North carolina 7 years ago and will never miss the humid hot weather from Southeast Georgia. I do miss the pecan trees and wildlife..The only intenteresting wildlife here are the Groundhogs and Coyotes. The Coyotes population is starting to get out of hand though. We been seeing them more and more every week and recently, we have been seeing them in packs in our front yard and looking like they haven't missed a meal.
@@williamdoughty2498 Daniel Strickland is my nephew. His dad's name is Rick Strickland. He passed away in February 2020. All those names sound familiar but the Strickland name is what I'm most familiar with
There is SO much cool stuff relating to the Okefenokee that we ultimately had to narrow our focus to the Georgia State Standards. :( Okefenokee Joe was featured in one of our documentaries which you can view here: www.gpb.org/swampwise
My grandmother was born in the early 1900s on Cowhouse isìand. My grandfather said that they used to make moonshine there and the police would come buy moonshine from them. He said that my great grandma would stand on the porch with a gun during these transactions. This was to ensure the police did not entrap them.
I haven't had a vacation in 50 years if I was to plan the ultimate vacation it would be to the swamp and one thing that would make me feel better would be if I left all of the venues that the tourist industry is running with a piece of paper I'm an email address at the end of the day I could help preserve the swamp emailing some legislator. It is a sad thing to see such beauty in decline and I would leave my vacation feeling that I had a happy memory and not a bittersweet one. It would be nice if all the people who make their money off of tourism would ask their customers if they'd like to have a flyer like that before they leave the tour .
I guess he taught to much actual knowledge that wasn't necessarily tree hugger friendly. Like how if you don't set that shit on fire every once and a while. The swamp will disappear.
Misinformation. No, an alligator can not run 30 MPH. Nor can crocodiles. I used to work with both and have had them run towards me several times with "criminal intent". It's easy for a healthy human being to run out of harms way. The danger is that even large crocodilians can strike rapidly without warning at close range and can nearly seem invisible in there natural habitat. Most crocodilian attacks occur in or very near the waters edge. You're pretty safe on land if you don't get too close.
