Randy Olson, Melissa Farlow Photography

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Paddlers endure oppressive heat, humidity and black flies while taking an overnight canoe trip through the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge wilderness. Students from Valdosta State College reserved a wilderness trip that takes three days floating in canoes through the prairies and portaging over an island where they camped.

Copyright

MELISSA FARLOW

Image Size

6559x4424 / 33.8MB

Keywords

biologists, boats, boating, botanists, canals, canoes, cooks and cooking, georgia (united states), heat, hat, hot, humidity, marshes, men, okefenokee national wildlife refuge, outdoor recreation, refuges and reserves, scientists and technicians, students, swamps, wetlands, wilderness

Contained in galleries

Okefenokee USA_National Geographic magazine_4/1992