You see mole crabs, and birds flying up and down the beach. You can leave behind the pressures of daily life. Ballance also leads the group across the highway to a maritime forest thriving with huge live oaks. At the beginning of the trail, he explains why an oak tree is shaped like a deer antler. As the trail snakes under a mass of trees, Ballance points out a marshy area covered with cattails.
Marshes are some of the most productive areas on earth.
We would set the net out of a wooden skiff. Sometimes we would come close into shore and chase mullets onto the banks. It was a great adventure back then. Later, Ballance and the group hike down a path covered with pine straw to a huge live oak bent over like a piece of sculpture. Some federal lands are being commercialized.