The low sandy rises here are old river deposits, not hills in any structural sense — the streams draining this stretch have cut down through layers of sand and clay laid along successive Gulf shorelines, leaving the more resistant sand standing as gentle ridges. Where the sand is deepest the vegetation changes noticeably: post oak and bluejack oak on the rises, with a dense understory of yaupon, and hardwood bottom along the creeks. It is the same alternation of sand and clay that runs the whole length of this corridor and decides what grows where.
Getting there
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