Many of us may have thought of this, but VSU art professor Dominick Gheesling actually did it: way down the Suwannee River from Fargo below the swamp all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.

Waydown: Summer 2013

All of the preparation that could be done was done. My ever-patient wife had given me permission to fall off the grid for a while. My friend Todd Bertolaet helped me load up all of the gear and took me to Fargo, Georgia where I launched on a twenty-nine day expedition, traveling the length of the Suwannee River, via canoe, to the terminus at the Gulf of Mexico. Photographing the length of this historic, iconic, southern river connected me to life and the earth in a manner that I had been missing for a long time.

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