Wallasea Island is largely farmland. A small settlement, campsite and marina lies at its western end linked by road to the mainland; there is also a ferry to Burnham-on-Crouch. Visitors can walk about 8 miles around most of the sea wall alongside open farmland which is home to skylarks, corn buntings and hares. At the RSPB reserve on the island they are transforming a large area of farmland back into coastal marshland to create a wetland mosaic of mudflats and saltmarshes, shallow lagoons and pastures criss-crossed by walkways to enable visitors to access the area.