The big marshes along the South Carolina coast are all pretty much behind old dikes of some kind. Hundreds of miles.Starting in the mid 1700’s plantation owners grew rice. A special kind long gone except for a few small patches.
The dike system, brought over with the enslaved people of West Africa and Barbados is ingenious. Salt water is heavy, the very surface is brackish, much less salt. When a dike is open the water passing through is actually just the small surface, fresh brackish not salt.
Basically one side of the dike system is salt marshes from the Atlantic Ocean, usually miles from the coast. The other side of these dikes is fresh water, skimmed by the open trunks. You can stand on some big dikes and one side is a salt marsh, the other side a fresh water marsh…all done by a simple old wooden gate/trunk letting water go back and forth with the tide.
The black and white treatment really emphasizes the peaceful feeling.
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Is it salt water Ted, why is it called a salt marsh?
The big marshes along the South Carolina coast are all pretty much behind old dikes of some kind. Hundreds of miles.Starting in the mid 1700’s plantation owners grew rice. A special kind long gone except for a few small patches.
The dike system, brought over with the enslaved people of West Africa and Barbados is ingenious. Salt water is heavy, the very surface is brackish, much less salt. When a dike is open the water passing through is actually just the small surface, fresh brackish not salt.
Basically one side of the dike system is salt marshes from the Atlantic Ocean, usually miles from the coast. The other side of these dikes is fresh water, skimmed by the open trunks. You can stand on some big dikes and one side is a salt marsh, the other side a fresh water marsh…all done by a simple old wooden gate/trunk letting water go back and forth with the tide.
😂😂 long answer. LOL