Pictures: Departing Floyd’s Island, Okefenokee Swamp 2023-11-05

We got up early enough to see the sun rise above the outhouse on the east side of Floyds Island. I got some pictures of the inside of Hebard Cabin, built in 1925 after the logging was finished. A few of us made a side trip over to Billys Island to see the Lee Cemetery and the few remains of the logging boom town. With alligators and turtles, of course.

Departing Floyd’s Island, Okefenokee Swamp 2023-11-05, Plus Minnies Lake and Billys Island

This was all on the Floyds Island Campout and Suwannee River Paddle in the Okefenokee Swamp, November 4-5, 2023.

See also pictures from the previous day. And facebook photosets by

Gretchen Quarterman
and probably others.

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-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
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Early

Wakey, wakey! 06:39:44, 30.8561415, -82.2669711

OH

Outhouse by the south landing, 06:59:12, 30.8566973, -82.2653813

ST

Sunrise on trail from south landing to cabin, 06:59:26, 30.8566973, -82.2653813

SL

South landing to Round Top or Bluff Lake, 06:59:57, 30.8564187, -82.2651243

MT

Hebard Cabin, morning tents, Floyds Island, 07:03:10, 30.8562662, -82.2664029

Morning tents, Hebard Cabin, Floyds Island, 07:02:43, 30.8562662, -82.2664029

Tents in the dawn distance, 07:01:32, 30.8566180, -82.2658318

BF

Breakfast preparing, 07:03:12, 30.8560675, -82.2669532

Cooking breakfast, 070401, 07:04:01, 30.8560675, -82.2669532

HC

Shelves, 07:08:34, 30.8560587, -82.2669813

Cecil Carter, Swamp Terrier, Boy Scouts, 07:08:52, 30.8560590, -82.2669810

Ample shelf space, 07:11:36, 30.8561820, -82.2672260

Out the front windows, 07:11:50, 30.8561822, -82.2672255

Camping inside, 07:12:18, 30.8561822, -82.2672255

PA

More people awake, 07:13:39, 30.8560771, -82.2669373

HM

jsq and Gretchen hammocks, 07:14:52, 30.8561538, -82.2670907

BP

More food, 08:20:19, 30.8557307, -82.2669913

MPU

Mostly packed up, 08:20:18, 30.8557307, -82.2669913

WD

Watching the deer, 08:21:38, 30.8560362, -82.2670197

Movie: A buck and several does, 08:21:37, (40M) 30.8560362, -82.2670197

CabinBanners

Banners at Hebard Cabin, Floyds Island, Okefenokee Swamp, 08:39:47, 30.8560404, -82.2670003

Gretchen setting a camera timer, 08:40:15, 30.8563322, -82.2671981

Everybody with banners, Hebard Cabin, Floyds Island, Okefenokee Swamp –Gretchen Quarterman, 30.8560404, -82.2670003

LB

Loading boats, 08:50:12, 30.8563076, -82.2678899

Outbound

Meadow, 10:31:00, 30.8715865, -82.2973848

LP

Lily pads, 10:50:34, 30.8756635, -82.3048002

Overhanging tree, 10:56:57

ML

Gator in Minnies Lake, 11:20:08, 30.8647391, -82.3187285

Gator on peat, 11:20:51, 30.8647390, -82.3187290

Gator on log, 11:22:08, 30.8640970, -82.3197304

Turtles on log, 11:23:52, 30.8636640, -82.3203270

Sinuous gator, 11:25:53, 30.8631655, -82.3216780

Shady gators on log, 11:28:03, 30.8616551, -82.3231197

MLP

Mocama Beer Company on roof of Minnies Lake Shelter, 11:38:32, 30.8611130, -82.3234120

Gator straddling log, 11:53:03, 30.8608872, -82.3234103

TT

Three turtles, 12:39:52, 30.8405755, -82.3414935

Shiny gator, 12:42:05, 30.8396171, -82.3429513

TG

Three gators on a log, 12:47:20, 30.8372946, -82.3438593

DS

Double signpost, 12:49:51, 30.8358263, -82.3430492

TL

Turn left for Billys Island, 12:51:06, 30.8355220, -82.3429350

MSP

Signpost at Middle and East Forks, Suwannee River, 12:51:33, 30.8348925, -82.3431213

BI

Billys Island landing, 13:07:45, 30.8318875, -82.3337563

Lee Cemetery, 13:16:25, 30.8309611, -82.3332676

-jsq, John S. Quarterman, Suwannee RIVERKEEPER®

You can help with clean, swimmable, fishable, drinkable, water in the 10,000-square-mile Suwannee River Basin in Florida and Georgia by becoming a WWALS member today!
https://wwals.net/donations/

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