Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Commonly known as the Okefenokee Swamp, it is located near Folkston, GA - near the Georgia-Florida border. Though most people consider it a swamp, it is really a peat bog. A very shallow lake that sits on top of a large deposit of peat - the stuff of peat moss. It is home to a wide variety of wildlife that live among the balled cypress trees covered with spanish moss and the tannin rich lake whose dark brown water is covered by water lillies.
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