Day 3 found us at a motel in Jacksonville, North Carolina, home of Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune. It is a 246-square-mile (640 km2) United States military training facility built to train soldiers in amphibious assault. Located on the southeastern coast of North Carolina, its miles of beaches provide the perfect setting for this type

I woke up on the morning of Day 2 of a 4-day adventure to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, ready to hit the road and see what the Green Swamp had to offer. The Green Swamp is a 16,000 acre (~6500 hectare) nature preserve in Brunswick County, North Carolina, owned and managed by The Nature Conservancy.

My friends at the North Carolina Native Plant Society had asked me to speak at their spring meeting in Jacksonville, North Carolina, so I thought it would be a good time to visit some of my favorite wildflower haunts along the way. Being at the time for spring wildflowers along the Carolinas Atlantic Coastal Plain,

Today, my destination was the DuPont State Recreational Forest in Transylvania County, just east of Cedar Mountain, North Carolina. Here is where I expected to find both Pink and Yellow Lady’s-slipper orchids, the latter in two distinct varieties. This is a place I was first introduced to by my North Carolina photographer friend, Kelvin Taylor,