· Canoeing the Suwannee River – Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico · 21 days · 249 miles ·
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Copyright © 2003 Tony Foster

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24 February – 17 March 1999 · with MB·

• Mile 16 · 24/25 February · Tupelo Limes & Swamp Cypresses in the early morning mist · painted from my canoe looking 320º NW · a cold, raw morning · equipment covered in frost ·
• Mile 38 · 26/27 February · Tupelo Lime in midstream · looking upriver from a white sand island · two flocks of 50 Sandhill Cranes rise on the thermals calling to each other · they finally rise out of sight but we still hear them distinctly in the clear morning air ·
• Swift Crick · 2 March · looking S downstream · Wallace’s favourite in all the world · next to his gun rack: “God said it · I believe it · That settles it!” ·
• Mile 79 · 3/4 March · looking downstream from camp 7 · cardinal birds · egrets · heron · kingfishers · red tailed hawk · turtles · otters · osprey · alligators ·
• Mile 145 · 7/8 March · looking downstream at the confluence of Peacock Slough and the Suwannee · we pack to the accompanying rattle of a Pileated Woodpecker & launch into the teeth of a fierce gale · we bathe in a series of azure springs bubbling up through the limestone at 70ºF ·
• Mile 249 · March 16 · from Little Bradford Island looking N to the Gulf of Mexico · pearly evening light and open space after 21 days canoeing through swamp landscapes ·