Hunting Island State Park
Marsh Boardwalk
Take a walk across pluff mud. At low tide, see snails clinging to grasses and crabs scuttling out of the sun. Taste the pungent scent of juniper. Dodge the web of a three-inch spider woven along the trail across the islet. Hear the harsh cry of a marsh hen. Discover the sign of raccoons at the water's edge below the dock. Watch as an egret lifts off without a sound, white against the blue. If you are lucky, a bottlenose dolphin may surface in the creek before your eyes.
Newly renovated, the marsh boardwalk allows us the opportunity to go where people rarely can, to glimpse the rarely seen. Improved parking and interpretive signs greet visitors.
Don't miss the marsh boardwalk two miles south of the lighthouse entrance, on the right.
FRIENDS OF HUNTING ISLAND
P.O. Box 844
Saint Helena Island, SC 29920
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We are a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization based in Beaufort, South Carolina.
Double Egret
Listen;
the silent lift of wing,
a subtle shift from still
toward moving.
A pair of undyed white
glimpsed in reedy lair,
like bandits discovered,
ready for flight.
The sudden rustle,
marsh rattle,
their slow takeoff,
framed by last year’s grasses.
Together wheeling
ever away,
a dual formation
of air force jealousy.
To perch separately
in neighboring trees
of cypress and pine
and guilt.
Cyn Follrich
St. Helena Island
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