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Article: Outings are in on Kiawah Island
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- Southern Living
- Article date:
- May 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Southern Progress Corporation May 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Which is it-plant or animal?"
That question is posed repeatedly by our tanned trip leader as she kneels in beach sand and holds up items we've gathered from the tide lines. We're often wrong, but she enlightens us so pleasantly we don't feel rebuffed.
A naturalist on the recreation staff at Kiawah Island Resort, Liz King spouts anecdotes about whelk shells, crab claws, pelican feathers, reeds, kelp, and other finds. "This sponge is not a plant but a colony of tiny animals," she says. Those rectangular pouches are skate egg cases." Pelicans live about 15 years, often starving when near blindness from diving renders them poor hunters, she explains. Each story underlines the ecosystem of ...