Coastal South
The First Cool Morning on the Water
One September morning you step onto the dock and the air has changed. The water knows before the calendar does. Summer has turned.
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Marshes, barrier islands, and life along the water.
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The Wild Horses of the Outer Banks, and the Land That Kept Them
For five hundred years, Spanish mustangs have run wild on the dunes of the northern Outer Banks. That they are still there is nobody's accident.
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Sanibel, and the Beach That Catches the Sea's Best Work
One Florida island turns sideways to the Gulf and catches what the water carries. The result is the finest shelling beach in North America.
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Cumberland Island, Where the Horses Run Wild Georgia's largest barrier island is a place of empty beaches, Gilded-Age ruins, and a herd of feral horses found nowhere else on the Atlantic coast. -
A Quiet Morning in the Lowcountry Marsh Before the heat settles in, the Lowcountry marsh offers a still, golden hour that's worth waking up for. -
In Praise of the Forgotten Coast Between the resorts and the crowds lies a quieter stretch of the Florida Gulf: barrier islands, working bays, and a slower way of being by the water.