Thanks for the kind comments....surprisingly, the bottom in those salt water ponds is surprisingly firm with grass growing in it; the reason the ducks feed there. At 66 I can't slog the upper coast (or Louisiana) marshes that I grew up in....these firm bottoms were a delightful change. It's an entirely different world in that part of Texas and Port O'Connor is at the end of the road....going back down there in April with the fly rods for redfish and speckled trout.(another bucket list item)