Gulfport's Clam Bayou offers peaceful refuge against its outside pressures.
June 26, 2008
A little more than 10 acres of savage Florida wilderness, Clam Bayou is an estuary whose borders stretch across the cities of Gulfport and St. Petersburg, Fla., before spilling into the Boca Ciega Bay. It is a brackish swirl where freshwater creeks push into the gulf waters, where mangrove forests and marshlands nurse juvenile fish at their roots and bird rookeries in their branches.