This trail has beautiful scenery and provides some historic information. You walk across a variety of different surfacesbeach sand, marsh hay, pine Golden Goose needles. I would suggest hiking shoes/boots. I wore sneakers and the sand slipped inside the sneaker quite easily. Alsohike early morning. We hiked late morning as the sun was getting high in the sky and temps were climbing. It wasn bad when there was a breeze; but there were quite a few places of dead air. We crossed Great Island and then turned back. Hopefully next time we will hike earlier and beat the sun and heat. Pleasestay on the designated trails. Don make your own trailsyou will be damaging the ecosystem of that area. And please don leave any garbage behind.