PHOTO OF THE DAY February 2, 2005  

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Where Altamaha River, Georgia
When 1997
Photographer Peter Essick

"Wild creatures [like these sandpipers] find refuge all along the Altamaha, taking comfort in a river left to its free-flowing ways."

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Easy Ways of the Altamaha," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)


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