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 south of the lighthouse entrance, on
the right.
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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