Ramsar Convention : Okefenokee Swamp
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge Spanish Moss ( Tillandsia usneoides ) Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge , Charlton, Georgia, United States of America. Ramsar site no. 350. The fabled & legendary swamp that is Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. Wow ! Did I ever fall in love with this big & so very beautiful swamp of the Southern USA . The Flora & Fauna of this place just blew my little mind to bits & made a horrible mess but it could not be circumvented because this place is just ... AWESOME !! I imagined that this is home to the swamp creatures that I fell in love with as a child. Both Man-Thing & Swamp Thing could be envisioned walking these blackwaters . Okefenokee Swamp is a shallow, 438,000-acre (177,000 ha), peat -filled wetland straddling the Georgia – Florida line in the United States of America . A majority of the swamp is protected by the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge and the Okefenokee Wilderness . The Okefenokee Sw...