With its golf holes playing out to the sea and salt marsh, its dunes patrolled by brown pelicans, and lanes overhung with Spanish moss, Sea Island has the air of a genteel, hidden enclave, at ease and above the fray.

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Ms Gage said since the project began, iconic salt marsh plants such as glasswort, sea milkwort and salt marsh rush had returned to the site.

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Divers confirm oysters and other freshwater sea life are dying and marsh grass is being killed off, worsening already chronic coastal erosion.

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It headed out towards the sea and landed on a marsh.

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