Between Tides: Kayaking and SUP the Marshes of St. Simons Island

At first light, the tide exhales. Spartina grass rustles like a soft audience, and Village Creek glides awake, slipping past the end of South Harrington Road as if it remembers every moon it has ever followed. You push off into satin water—kayak or stand-up paddle board underfoot—where the marsh opens like a book with no last page. A blue heron lifts from the bank with the nonchalance of a regular, and somewhere out in the channels, a dolphin surfaces and vanishes, as if winking you deeper into its labyrinth.