Driftwood

I walked across the parking lot toward the water and promptly ran into a wall of driftwood. I can remember coming to this beach when I was a child, there were only one or two logs on the beach, and as the years slowly passed, the amount of driftwood has steadily increased at the shore’s edge. Today, the driftwood wall was nearly six feet deep and in order to get to the sand you have to walk over this driftwood forest. All the logs are intertwined with each other making the walk difficult to maneuver. Some were clearly fallen trees that have been striped of their bark, where others look like they were once part of someone’s home. The size of the different driftwoods varied drastically, it looked like you could find an entire forest on the beach. Some were twigs, small branches, large branches and full tree trunks. The coloring of the wood was as varied as their size. Half of them are deep to light brown in color and the other half are varying shades of light to medium grey.

There is even one log that is located down by the water’s edge, as if it has just washed ashore not long ago. This long is different from the rest that lie along the upper section of the beach. This log is much darker in color and clearly is wet compared from the water; the log is partly sitting in. The log is also covered in a green moss. This moss reminds me more of the Rainforest moss on the Olympic Peninsula then typical moss or seaweed found on the local beaches.