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Just to the South of Salmon Creek and before Black Walnut Creek there is a sandy beach front shaded by scattered cypress trees. What use to be the banks of the Avoca Farm are now part of the shoreline of Scotch Hall Preserve - named after the beautiful plantation that still overlooks the Albemarle Sound just a mile or so further down.
Late in the afternoon as the setting sun's lights up the cypress needles to rusty oranges and bright yellows, and as the wind dies down the water flattens out near the shore providing mirror like reflections. Last summer after a day of white perch fishing and tubing with my son and his friends we headed back to Jeb Ivey's house to fry up the fish on the beach. On a still night such as this, we had to build a fire with the littered drift wood to smoke out the bugs. Luckily, I had my camera with me to shoot these trees with the Washington County shoreline in the background.
