A short drive away, well past the borders of Clay County on the northern edge of Duval County, exists Big Talbot Island State Park. While this area is not located in Clay County, it represents an intriguing prospect for an encounter with the closest thing to moonscape we have available.

Sometimes referred to as the "edge of time," the shoreline along Big Talbot Island's northern tip presents visitors with an alternate depiction of the typical sea-land transition. Normally, when we think of coastline, we envision an area of sandy vegetation, buffered by beach, and eventually transitioning into the watery edge of the ocean. In this surreal landscape, however, soil erosion has transformed the coast and presented the illusion that trees have grown right out into the ocean. Their dead and dying remnants make for some eerie scenery and provides a most unusual opportunity for the shell hunter, the photographer and those simply wanting to take a peaceful walk in an uncrowded natural environment.

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