What is this?

[jd_johnson]

I drove to the end of this 'road' once. I DO NOT recommend any one take an automobile back there. The path is REALLY tight, and my 2002 Santa Fe (4wd) made it thorough the mud holes, but got totally scratched from the overgrown brush. IF you want to try to get to the end of this point, I recommend you take an ATV, or horse / mule. Why did I try it, you may ask? There was good fishing on the south side of the hook at the end of that point and I was searching for a place to launch my kayak. I can confirm, there isn't any place to launch. However, there is a trash dump out there with more shell casings than a Baghdad street.

 

[SHELLY]

and you know this how?

If I tell ya, I'd have to kill ya.


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[Kurt]

Actually, the water in the canals is more fresh than salt. It drains from the land. In fact, the bay at one time had more fresh water than salt, but when the canal was opened by a hurricane at East Pass in Destin, then a considerable amount more salt water entered into the bay.

I've been out among the ditches shown on the map. There's no land to speak of, and what little there is was created by what came out of the ditches. It was probably a perfectly functioning wetland that regulated itself through variations in water levels from tides and storms, and all sorts of wildlife that ate larvae. It's so low out there that I doubt the ditches in question achieved anything other than a temporary disruption in life cycles.

Also, I assume that when the ditches in question were dug in the salt marsh it was quite salty since East Pass was opened by a hurricane in 1926 (aided by a little digging by a few eager Destinites).

I don't know what the conversation was at the time but it wouldn't suprise me if digging happened in the wrong place(s) even if the intention was good that doesn't make it correct.

I'll add with no offense intended that I find it ironic that the same development and influx of foreigners you dislike, would according to you, not have been possible without the heroic past and current methods and tactics of mosquito control and eradication which cause you to swell with pride.