Your description of Moonstone Beach being stripped raw reminds me of my impressions of the Roanoke River Gorge here after the flood waters from 4 Hurricanes that came up through SW Va from the gulf- after they pummeled Florida- looked like.
Gone was the sandy beach area that was being encroached upon by the trees and various other plants, gone was the deceptively slow, lazy flow of water. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/WolfSilverOak/river1.jpg) All that was left was bare rocks- boulders the size of houses, ones the size of a small truck and smaller. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/WolfSilverOak/newyears052.jpg)
But what really stuck with me wasn;t the sudden change in the water flow- both the course of the river and the speed- but was the huge driftwood like trunk of an old cedar (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/WolfSilverOak/newyears054.jpg)that had been buried for who knows how long, was now bared to the sun and revealed to all.
Nature has a way of revealing the most beautiful things in the most destructive way.
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Date: 2011-08-30 07:01 pm (UTC)Gone was the sandy beach area that was being encroached upon by the trees and various other plants, gone was the deceptively slow, lazy flow of water. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/WolfSilverOak/river1.jpg) All that was left was bare rocks- boulders the size of houses, ones the size of a small truck and smaller. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/WolfSilverOak/newyears052.jpg)
But what really stuck with me wasn;t the sudden change in the water flow- both the course of the river and the speed- but was the huge driftwood like trunk of an old cedar (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/WolfSilverOak/newyears054.jpg)that had been buried for who knows how long, was now bared to the sun and revealed to all.
Nature has a way of revealing the most beautiful things in the most destructive way.