http://www.flycatcherjournal.org/big-hammock.php
Please visit the new online publication Flycatcher: A Journal of Native Imagination to see my photo essay “Big Hammock of the Altamaha”. Editor Christopher Martin presents a wonderful collection of poetry, fiction, and essays about nature and place in the South. Read the poem “Red Lanterns” by my friend Janisse Ray while you’re there.
McNatt Falls is an area along the Altamaha featuring numerous fishing or river cabins, mostly second homes, characterized by their elevation on stilts to protect from flooding. It’s quite an interesting locale, surprising in the large numbers of residences. While many of the structures are recycled older mobile homes, many newer, more modern cabins are being built.
Water is usually at dock level here, but the 2011 drought has had a major impact on water levels on the Altamaha and nearly all rivers in Georgia.
This monument was placed memory of Bennie, Gladys, Faye & Samuel Brantley, and Franklin Haynes, who lost their lives in a boating accident at Gray’s Landing on 12 July 1956.
The “island” in the middle is actually a sandbar. This would normally be completely submerged but record low water marks have had an adverse effect of Georgia’s historic 2011 drought.
This outdated but architecturally interesting bridge, at the Appling-Toombs County line near English Eddy, is a busy viaduct in the shadow of the controversial Southern Company nuclear power facility, Plant Hatch.
Several old cabins like this can be found at the private hunting and fishing club at Hughes Old River, a lake just off the Altamaha River.
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