There are days, and places, where the bugs get bad. Head-nets help. But mostly you have to just grin and bear it. Or get in the boat and go somewhere a breeze is blowing. This is the upper intertidal zone where salt tolerant sedges, grasses and herbs become inundated by tidewater. It makes for easy hiking when the tide’s out, except for the bugs... Photographer: Bill Eichenlaub