Topic - Ben Raines

“We don’t even know what’s here,” says Raines, cutting the motor as his boat glides into a thicket of sedges in the lower delta - the high-rises of Mobile visible in the distance, boat-tailed grackles eating cones from lotuses and alligators occasionally plying the waterway.

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