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Okefenokee Swamp
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blackpowderscout
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I'm not sure but I think they have motor restrictions there. I may be wrong but I seem to remember reading that somewhere.
Adam
Adam
blackpowderscout
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I just checked and they have a 10HP limit and absolutely NO AIRBOATS. Something about being a noisy intrusion and scaring wildlife.... :cussing:
Adam
Adam
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Anonymous
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Croc1, BPS is tellin you right about the 'no airboat ban' on the Okeefenokee. I did hear of one case where an airboat was used in SAR up there a couple of years ago, but otherwise it's not permitted.
A couple of my inlaws who live up in that area tell me that there's some great fishin in that swamp, but that there are some areas with a lot of Cypress stickups from old harvesting, so the riding probably wouldn't be that good (safe) anyway unless you really knew where you were.
BF
A couple of my inlaws who live up in that area tell me that there's some great fishin in that swamp, but that there are some areas with a lot of Cypress stickups from old harvesting, so the riding probably wouldn't be that good (safe) anyway unless you really knew where you were.
BF
But look at the wonderful piece of nature preserved for all of us citizens to enjoy. You better be careful in that plane there may be some restrictions on flyovers LOL
blackpowderscout
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Just to be safe, I'd aviod even looking in the general direction of the swamp...you never know who's watching....
Adam
Adam
The Okefenokee Swamp is known for its Floating Islands of vegetation.
Some of the plants that grow on these tussets are only find here & no other place in the world.
Between the cypress & the mats, not a fun place to ride.
After visits there several times for DU business, I'd have to say not hearing the airboats is quit peaceful.
Sorry!!!
CJ
Some of the plants that grow on these tussets are only find here & no other place in the world.
Between the cypress & the mats, not a fun place to ride.
After visits there several times for DU business, I'd have to say not hearing the airboats is quit peaceful.
Sorry!!!
CJ
Years ago I took the Family to the ockee to veiw the the natural untouch cypress swamp, wrong was about 50 years to late ,all gone, been raped and pillaged already , come to find out the old boy that owned it all was about 2 miles and $10,000 .00 shy of having it drained in to the saint marys river before going bankrupt. go figure
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Stan,
When my wife was a little girl, she said her father used to love to fish on the Okee. He had a little wooden rowboat with a not very reliable old Evinrude on it, so most of the time he would just row it. The man would come home and tell them stories about how how he used to have to smack gator on the nose with his paddle to keep them from stealing the perch that he'd caught.
Think about that .... a man alone, in a little wooden rowboat, smackin gator with his paddle! I never knew him, but I wish I had. He must have been tougher than a pine knot.
Ken
When my wife was a little girl, she said her father used to love to fish on the Okee. He had a little wooden rowboat with a not very reliable old Evinrude on it, so most of the time he would just row it. The man would come home and tell them stories about how how he used to have to smack gator on the nose with his paddle to keep them from stealing the perch that he'd caught.
Think about that .... a man alone, in a little wooden rowboat, smackin gator with his paddle! I never knew him, but I wish I had. He must have been tougher than a pine knot.
Ken