Here is a short story about one of our photo adventures. In September we took our trailer east. It was a chance to visit friends, visit Carol’s cousins in Louisiana, visit my mother in North Carolina and visit some more national parks. It was a trip that did not go as planned, but still had lots of good opportunities, both photographic and otherwise.
After stops at Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Great Sand Dunes National Parks in Colorado, we visited friends in Fort Worth. We had to stay longer than originally planned. Hurricane Francine barreled through central Louisiana delaying our trip. While we were waiting for the storm to pass, the refrigerator in the trailer died. Probably because I had parked the trailer on too steep a side-to-side incline for several days. It could not be fixed. Fortunately a mobile RV repair service was able to diagnose the problem and replace it with a newer unit. Dallas/Fort Worth being larger, it was not difficult to find a replacement. Problem solved with a credit card. So we continued on to Louisiana, visited the cousins and continued east.
The tongue jack on the trailer broke. I was glad I keep a Hi-Lift jack in the truck, it enabled us to get the trailer on and off the hitch so we could continue our adventures at the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia.
And that brings us to the story about this photo. The Okefenokee, besides being really fun to say (go ahead, say it!), is amazing. We were there during a bit of an off-season so it was very uncrowded. We took a tour with Okefenokee and Satilla Expeditions (https://www.okefenokee-satilla.com/). Jenny, our guide and owner of the business is a trained naturalist. She clearly knows her stuff and loves what she does. She made the trip. The swamp is known as the setting for the cartoon Pogo, famous for the immortal line “We have met the enemy and he is us.” (https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/)
Our four-hour long trip was incredible. We managed to make a few nice photos along the way. My favorite is of the alligator bubble trail on the water. You could actually see the trail of bubbles moving purposefully along the surface, indications of a ‘gator walking along the bottom of the swamp. I like this photo because of the story that goes with it. While we did see some alligators with their snouts out of the water, I think the bubbles tell a good story.
Of course the Okefenokee was not the end of this adventure. We had a replacement jack shipped to my friend’s house on Jekyll Island, an upcoming stop, and another mobile RV service came and did the replacement. Another problem solved with a credit card. We then stopped at Congaree National Park in South Carolina.
We visited Mammoth Cave National Park (51 of 63) after stopping to see my mother in North Carolina. (She would soon come to see us, Hurricane Helene forced her from her home in Banner Elk, NC and she ended up staying with us for three weeks while services were restored to her home and business). We missed the worst of the storm ourselves, finally managing to outrun it by the time we got to St. Louis.
We had planned to bring the dog on our trip, but glad we did not. A few good pictures along the way, lots of great visits with friends and family and of course the Okefenokee. Go ahead, say it, I know you want to.
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