THURSDAY, OUR LAST DAY HERE.
Day 62 – After one week at this campsite, we have to leave tomorrow. Someone else gets this campsite. It was 59 degrees and partly cloudy at 7:30 this morning. Another warming trend begins today. After all our morning chores, we went out to the tent until 1 p.m. It was getting more humid & we went inside for lunch, then chopped our vegetables up for tonight.
The weekend turnover had begun with people leaving before the crowds arrived and the early birds coming in to set up camp. We left in the afternoon for our last trip to the Sill to see what the warmer weather was bringing. Also wanted to drive one more time by the place where Big Mama Alligator (a.k.a., Sophie) usually spent her afternoons by the rental canoes & kayaks, watching over the young ‘uns.
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Back to the RV around 5 p.m., we started our vegetables cooking & headed out to the screened tent with our special Bourbon drinks, toasting to this wonderful place in the wilderness. We hate to leave and will miss it – ’til next time.
Stephen C. Foster State Park: 17515 Highway 177, Fargo, GA 31631 (18 miles northeast of Fargo off GA Hwy. 177); Park telephone (912) 637-5274; Reservations www.GaStateParks.org or 1-800-864-7275. We stayed here in March of 2017 & reviewed this campground then – a different review than now – so I will update here rather than just referring to the link. We had a great campsite this time, bigger & more private than last time. We wouldn’t hesitate to reserve this site again (#56). Many of the 68 campsites are too small for an RV & many are fairly close to their neighbor without many trees or bushes in between sites. We liked site #56. Alot of the campsites were muddy due to the time of year & the heavy rains. The campsites had electricity & water; there was a dump station nearby. There are also really nice cottages for rent with screened porches. The campground is 17 miles from the main highway. The only noise you hear is from the wildlife around you, or your neighbors. Weekdays were quiet. The main draw is not the camping experience but the proximity to the Okefenokee Swamp. There are hiking, biking, and fishing, boat rentals or bring your own boat, swamp boat tours, and evening stargazing paddles in season. This is an incredible opportunity to see wildlife about as free to roam as you can imagine. Once you’ve been here & traveled deep into the swamp amongst trees that are thousands of years old, paddled in the black swamp water with alligators sunning themselves on the muddy banks, you will never forget the experience. We’ve done it before & we’ll definitely do it again!