In August of 2020 I went back to Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge with my twin brother and best friend, Paul. August is not the most popular time of year to visit a wetland in southern Georgia, but we previously experienced it in December and January, and wanted to see it in the humid heart of summer.
Understandably the platforms are closed in the summer, we opted to spend a few nights in Okefenokee Pastimes Cabins, the private campground directly across from the refuge.
On a very hot and humid day in August of 2020, we hiked the 4-mile Bay Trail at Jones Lake State Park. The very flat trail is a loop around 224-acre Jones Lake, one of the two carolina bays in the park, the other being Salters Lake.
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| a glimpse of the dense pocosin wetlands that border much of the lake |
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| a view of Jones Lake from a gap in the forest, along the trail |
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| an eastern fence lizard |
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| the fallen flower from a loblolly bay, a beautiful wetland tree common in pocosins) |
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| a pine stand in the adjacent uplands near the lake |
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| an american toad |
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| along Bay Trail |
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| along Bay Trail |
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| a rough green snake |
