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| We gathered on a bluff overlooking the Edisto River at dusk as flocks of mergansers were flying home to bed down for the night in the shallow waters of Snuggedy Swamp and Tupelo Swamp. John Cook, the land-owner, swept the horizon with his gaze. “We're only 30 miles from Charleston,” he said, “but it's a different world out here—the way it's meant to be.”
The two swamps together comprise tens of thousands of acres and are part of a 350,000-acre estuary bounded by the Ashepoo, Combahee, and Edisto Rivers, referred to as the ACE Basin. |
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