Interesting, thanks. It looks like the video may have been set on Daufuskie Island.
I was in the marine construction business at Beaufort during the great depression of 1973-4, and my partner was Pat Conroy’s
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Is_Wide_(book))
successor as the teacher at the Daufuskie Island School. He (my partner) said the ticks were so abundant that they made the pine tags on the paths move.