 This is what most of the water area looks like as you can see some guys fishing out there. I'm not quite sure, well I'm pretty close to where the visitor center is but I'm not quite sure what's out there. They have what they call a museum here, it's really just an old millhouse with a couple informational plaques but you know that's there if you want to see it. Got a little dugout canoe and stuff. It's pretty simple though, so I think I'll go walking around. I'm not going to stay here for very long today but we'll see what's here. As you can see the water level is actually pretty low this time of year. It's been relatively dry recently, so a lot of these trees don't have water at the levels they typically have. There's also some trash down there, typical stuff but to be honest I've never really been at a place like this, even though I've lived around swamps like this for a while. I've honestly just never been to, you know, for example the Okipanoki Swamp which is relatively close. Never been there, never been to a kind of environment like this. If you go to the other parks in the area you don't see anything quite the same. Now Georgia doesn't actually have natural lakes but they do have natural swamps especially in the south specifically. So this is the kind of stuff that you're going to see but again it's just not something that I've been familiar with. So it looks like this is actually the beginning of a hiking trail which I'm not in the mood to walking today. I was just sort of checking this place out. So I probably will turn back and look at, I want to look at some of the campsites but as you can see it's pretty big. It's a loop, one loop that side, one loop that side and I think over there as this sign says it's a county road, has electrical poles through it. But I'll probably turn around, I'll go to the campsites and see what they're about because I might end up staying here eventually. So I asked around and apparently it's not a seasonal thing, why the water is so low because we're in an area that should be covered in water so consider this a privilege but apparently what's going on is they're draining the lake for some reason and they're going to be putting the water back in I guess in a couple months. So you're seeing it as it's typically not seen. This is, this would be the swamp floor. So it's sort of weird, it's very mushy. If I like really force my foot in there it'll go down, I don't know it's just really mushy I feel like you know I'm going to fall into it. Maybe I shouldn't be walking out here, I don't know but you know, got your little roots. There's a name for those things, I forget. We have them in North Florida but I forget the name for them. But speaking of which, everything's covered in Spanish moss, you might not be able to see it. Actually Yankees probably don't know what Spanish moss even is. Here's some of it, yeah this kind of stuff, it grows on trees. It's all over the place if you live in Florida or South Georgia. This is sort of like Central Georgia, maybe Central South Georgia so anyway so I'm going to head back where I came from. I was on this dock over here which is of course way lower than it's supposed to be. In fact it was actually, excuse me, sort of shaking when I was on it. Probably dangerous. Maybe I shouldn't be on it but anyway I'll walk back out, oh yeah, watch this. It's like it's not going to fall or something, it feels like it is, getting seasick walking up it but yeah this is usually, this is a dock for if you have some kind of boat you put out here. Now this park is interesting because they actually have what they call, well they don't have a name for it but they have like trails except for in the water that you can follow. I think you know like breaks through the trees so if you look on their map it has a bunch of trails like that. Now I'm going to try and get to these campsites. Now of course the campsites that I care about are the primitive campsites. Georgia State Park has all these funny names for camping sites. You know there's like pioneer camping that's for like groups. There's like I don't know normal camping which is sort of lame because you have water and electricity and you can do boomer camp, well they don't call it boomer camping but you can camp in an RV. They have all that in that portion of the camping area which is I don't know sort of manicured but I might walk to the primitive camping area. As you can see no one is here. This is like the dock and primitive camping parking area but I might walk to the primitive camping area and that's like no electricity, no anything. They might have water somewhere I'm not quite sure but I don't know if I really want to because it's like half of a mile out there and then half of a mile back or no no no not half a mile and a half out and back and I haven't eaten all day I'm like sort of hungry but maybe we'll go see them. Actually one more note you might see out here all these trees actually you might not be able to see from this angle but maybe if I get a little closer these trees are all I think planted okay yeah I'll go from this angle you may be able to see that these trees are planted in rows so these are like grown for pine which is really I mean very common around here but I just find it weird that a state park has trees growing like this like they're gonna harvest them I don't know maybe they're actually gonna do that but either way. Anyway as I mentioned Georgia State Parks has have a bunch of names for their camping sites and these are primitive camping which I think are the most intense most hardcore most like literally primitive they have other ones called walk-ins which I think are similar to this you walk into them but like you have to park somewhere else and go in but I think they have water and other amenities I'm pretty sure these have absolutely nothing so we'll see but the trails of course are still marked so you don't totally get lost these are all blue and it's sort of nice it's by the swamp area so you get at least something to look at but in the park so it's February right now it's been abnormally warm it hit like 80 a couple days ago I was at an other park earlier today just to check it out as well it wasn't quite as memorable but yeah there were actually a lot of people here but there are not very many here which is I don't know sort of unexpected but you know I guess it is February even if it is pretty bearable weather for camping so now they have a couple feeders for I don't know birds or something I'm not quite sure I don't know the whole how this place works or whatever anyway I find swamps like this they're sort of a part of my psyche I don't know how to understand it this is gonna be sort of a weird note again as I said earlier in the video I've never actually been to one of these kind of swamps but when I was a kid I used to have weird dreams about them like weird I don't know like there's some psychic reality in my brain about them I used to have like dreams that I was like in a hovercraft racing through like the okie-fine-okie swamp or something I've never even been there but it looked pretty much exactly like this in my dream you know I don't know maybe I was playing too much diddy Kong racing or something you know as a kid you do that kind of stuff anyway so it will probably be a little bit more before I actually get to the primitive campsite so I'm just gonna flip it off and show you when I get there okay there was a really big bird out there I was trying to get it but I think it I think it left in terms of wildlife I haven't seen that much in the park although I will say on the way here I have seen like a million like a roadkilled bobcats whole bunch of bobcats in the area and you know your typical stuff I don't know if you know the wildlife of you know sort of South Georgia but it's mostly you know if you drive down you'll see a bunch of dead armadillos or possums or I don't know what else is there but well I'll just say bobcats I don't see that much but there are definitely a lot of bobcats out here so is there anything else we hit I'm trying to think yeah I'm not quite sure on my way to the primitive camping I've run across what they call the pioneer camping area this is a group camping area for like Boy Scouts or I don't know whoever else orders that I think they have a road that comes in but these are just sort of bunk houses we got some bug nets but it's nothing fancy it's just really just a covering very simple area and a lot of parks in Georgia will have this these pioneer camp or yeah pioneer camping areas we got a kneading area a really big grill so yeah it's sort of devoted to people who they even have water sissies yeah anyway it's developed devoted for people who come in groups I've never actually used any of these facilities but I don't know maybe they're interesting okay I finally found it released the first one there I think there's three campsites in a row here let's see what the first one looks like and of course these do not stick out honestly I do not even see what's up here it's probably literally like a fire pit and that's it there might be more let's see oh I can sort of see it yeah these things are really remote they're even pretty far I mean they're relatively close if you go on this side but yeah you have to hike a good bit and to get to it now this isn't too far from the pioneer camp just a couple minutes ago you can look back over there well actually maybe if I get on the top of this hill you can actually see the pioneer camp so it's not too far away but it is way more remote than any other thing all right I see a fireplace with a grill that's fancy and they have a nice little tint pitching area no water nothing fancy in sight though so you're supposed where you're supposed to pitch your tent there's where you light your fire and that's about it for the primitive camping I forget how much these go for if you want to stay in one if you want to reserve one I couldn't be more than $15 I don't think good night and usually when I come out the camp in a place like this I usually wait till there's some kind of discount although honestly in Georgia State Parks especially with these primitive camping ones if no one else is reserved you can probably just sneak in you didn't hear that from me of course that's true in a lot of places as well so just as long as no one's reserved it already you know what I I think I'm just gonna not take the trail I'm gonna cut through because this was sort of a long walk well it wasn't a long walk it was only like one and half miles but I was at this other park earlier today I've been walking on the trails here I don't know I must still walked I haven't eaten anything and I probably walked like 15 miles today not 15 maybe 10 other way I'm just tired I'm hungry I want to get back and the best way to do that is probably get lost out here okay there's the pioneer camping areas so I'll just make my way towards them didn't even notice this before this is the pioneer camping area back there but someone built this little shelter I don't know maybe just Boy Scouts doing it for fun or something but looks viable it's coming apart a little but a little pine straw would fix that so nice little lean to anyway let's head back I can't wait to get some food at my favorite restaurant waffle house this video is brought to you by waffle house actually that's not true but if waffle house wants to sponsor me I will advertise for waffle house in every single video had to walk through some thorns there anyway let's get back all right I'll get there eventually I'm cutting through this area it couldn't be more than a couple acres wide but this should lead me to the oh yeah there's a little trail there I'm not lost thank God for a second I was worried that Dave Politis would be talking about me on coast to coast but I found some kind of trail it's all good kids won't have a like a Blair witch type event here oh look at that it was even the trail I was on the blue trail look at that I saved myself at least half a mile I don't know why people build trails that are just meandering I don't know maybe that's the point in a state park but anyway alright minor adventure over I'm back in my car I made it I mean it wasn't that difficult but so yeah I really like this place I'll probably come here to camp sometime soon I enjoy it it's different than most of the Georgia State Parks I've been to the primitive camping sites are remote enough that I don't have to worry about boomers all the time so I enjoy it yeah I definitely recommend it for any you guys who live I guess in the area you can look it up yourself I mean I don't know who actually lives around me but so I'll actually be going to a bunch of other parks sometime soon just because a I have a car now and B I decided to just go ahead and get a year past all the Georgia State Parks so I can just park on anyone for any amount of time so that that's nice so I've already gone to two today so it'll add up pretty quickly so yeah I enjoyed this place definitely recommend it and I'm the only question now is do I want waffle houses crappy steak and eggs or do I want the all-star or whatever they call it it's not all-star is that like Denny's I don't even know you know what I'm talking about but anyway that's it so I will see you guys next time