We drove to the Pitcher Plant Bog on our first day of vacation. Wolfgang took a bunch of pictures there. These pitcher plants are awesome because they are carnivorous plants. Is anyone else thinking Little Shop of Horrors? Feed me Seymore!

The next day we drove to the Okefenokee. I just like saying Oke-feno-keeeeeee, which is Native American for something like small bear on a mound. I’m just kidding. It means “trembling earth”. See. I can Google too. Now, just don’t ask me while driving down a road if the predator in the sky is a Black or Turkey vulture. Sorry guys. I have a hint of sarcasm in me today. Wolfgang spotted more pitcher plants along the side of the road. My field photographer had to jump out and take more photos of them.

These were a different variety. It’s kind of cool how you can see the opening where the insects fall in and never return. I also have a field biologist in training too. He was trying to “feed” the pitcher plants. How cute!

The Okefenokee is a swamp. Yes we were inches away from alligators. I might have freaked out once or twice and wanted to turn back a few times, but I think the alligators were more afraid of us, or they were well fed before we arrived. Either way, we’ve survived to blog about it with all limbs intact. Oh, I need to add that this was my mom’s first time paddling a canoe. She did a good job.