The Coastal Isles and the Okefenokee Features
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The Coastal Isles and the Okefenokee Features
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Travel Deals in The Coastal Isles and the Okefenokee
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