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JOHN WOOD: Hi.
I'm Dr. John Wood.
We're going to move out to our camp on trail two on Sandy
Neck, and we're going to be going out by vehicle.
There's 56 houses out here in all, I think.
And most of them are out at the beach colony out near the
lighthouse.
Yeah, this is my house right here.
We're in a very beautiful spot.
But it's very environmentally sensitive.
So everything that we do, we want to do it the best manner
possible with the technology that's available now.
There's times when the tide comes up high enough that the
water comes in right underneath the camp.
And you just have to wait for it to sink back
down into the sand.
This is my little duck hunting arsenal.
That's what we use out on the marsh.
The bird migrations are unbelievable to watch.
And when I'm duck hunting out on the marsh, granted, I might
be bringing in one duck.
But I'm out there all day long and kind of documenting the
different patterns of nature that, unless you go out there,
you don't see it.
And we have a little hot tub over here that the middle of
summer, we wait for a big rain, so it
really soaks the wood.
And then you can start filling it up.
I always liked the idea of being able to
take a shower outside.
And you can still look around.
If it's up here, then you can't see what you're doing.
So, here's the inside of camp.
How this place was set up is how it was when we bought it.
These little bunks with drawers underneath them.
And that's one thing, in a little house like this, much
like in a boat, every little space is important.
We're lucky in the event that we've got a nice little
kitchen to work out of.
It's not uncommon we throw parties out here where we can
feed 50, 60 people at a time.
We do crawfish boils, we cook alligator out here,
deep-frying it.
Then we're lucky, too, that we have a little bathroom.
The wives like this feature where we have
a composting toilet.
But when you look at it, you can see it only has eight
ounces of water to flush, so it's very conservative in
terms of using that.
You have to use special degradable toilet paper, like
you would in a slide-in camper or things of that nature.
And also an inside shower.
But I still like taking the outside showers better.
When we bought the camp, we wanted to
optimize the living space.
And we made a little set of stairs here.
And this is kind of shaped like you'd see in a boat.
Put in some cabinetry.
You have to be here to really experience it.
It's the solitude, it's the quiet, it's
the stars at night.
It's the noises that you don't hear at home.
It's waking up in the morning and looking at the sand and
looking at fresh tracks in the sand that every day, it tells
a different story of the critters that are around here.
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