He pulls out his cellphone and starts calling around before he even makes it to his pickup. Meador climbs out of the boat and walks down the pier in a white, long-sleeved sun shirt and slacks rolled up to reveal feet as brown, worn, and leathery as the sandals they’re in. “I’ll see if I can get somebody else to take you out.” Jimbo Meador has been navigating the delta for decades His disappointment is palpable, even with his face obscured by aviator shades and a long-brimmed hat. “Water pump ain’t working,” he says, syrupy accent smoothing over both r’s. We are in Spanish Fort, Alabama, near the junction of Mobile Bay and the Mobile-Tensaw River Delta, but for the moment, it appears we’re stranded ashore. Jimbo Meador looks up plaintively from behind the outboard of his flat-bottomed boat, which bobs idly alongside the pier in Meaher State Park. Plus: More great escapes into the wild South. A writer tours this vibrant but vulnerable ecosystem with the human who knows it best. Alabama’s Mobile-Tensaw River Delta is one of the richest repositories of life on the planet.
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