The Coastal Isles and the Okefenokee Features

The Coastal Isles and the Okefenokee Features

• Top Reasons to Go to The Coastal Isles and the Okefenokee
  

  Saltwater marshes: Fringing the coastline, waist-high grasses transform both sunlight and shadow with their lyrical textures and shapes.... read more

• Georgia's Coastal Isles Beaches
  

  Remote and largely untouched, the beaches on Georgia's barrier islands sit at the confluence of rich salt marshes and the Atlantic Ocean. Nature-watching... read more

• The Geechee, a Culture Apart
  

  Georgia's Geechee, like the Gullah people of South Carolina, are descendants of African slaves who have preserved a distinct culture and language... read more

• Tabby Building Material
  

  To most of the English-speaking world, the word tabby brings to mind dapple-coated cats, but along the coast of Georgia and South Carolina it... read more

• Colonial Coast Birding Trail
  

  Georgia's vast network of rivers, marshes, and barrier islands is an ideal habitat for hundreds of species of birds, from nesting wood storks... read more

• Georgia's Black Republic
  

  After capturing Savannah in December 1864, General William Tecumseh Sherman read the Emancipation Proclamation at the Second African Baptist... read more

• The Nile of the East Coast
  

  The Altamaha River is a national treasure. Formed by the confluence of the Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers near Hazelhurst, it's the longest undammed... read more

• Okefenokee Origins
  

  During the last Ice Age (10,000 years ago) this area was part of the ocean floor. As the ocean receded, a dune line formed, which acted as a... read more