You ended up being right. Good bedding and a couple large beds on that point where the marsh meets the woods.
Can’t emphasize the need to get boots on the ground enough. Despite my analysis - there’s no cypress-Tupelo swamp out there at all. The marsh-slough is surrounded by flat pine, some almost like pine Savannah, but mostly mixed hardwoods with A TON of cow oak. like, I walked two miles just bouncing from cow oak stand to the next, picking along the edge of the marsh and slight ridges. The woods have pockets of tall thistle and berry bushes, but are pretty homogenous otherwise. Post oak and white oak, too.
Unfortunately none of the oaks had acorns. Must not be their year. Additionally, there’s a big parking area right off the road and a walking-only access path with pink flyers marking it about a mile and a half back… so I may end up avoiding it? Hard to tell if it’s deer or duck hunters in the marsh. I found a few shotgun shells and an old decoy. Plastic water jugs. The top of a cooler. This is archery only for deer, but duck hunters don’t help.
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