The darkest hour may be just before dawn but…
The colors of dawn, pre-sunrise, can be simply beautiful. Here is a dawn photograph of an iconic lone tree silhouetted against the brightening and colorful sky on Driftwood Beach in Jekyll Island, Georgia.
Driftwood Beach is on the northern end of Jekyll Island, one of Georgia’s Golden Isles, and is a picturesque place featuring numerous driftwood trees and parts of trees. This “scene from another world” was created by years of erosion that caused trees of a marine forest to topple into the salt water of the Atlantic ocean and die. While it is a form of marine debris, or tidewrack, is can also be quite beautiful and even mysterious. The salinity of the ocean water tends to preserve the trees for many decades – if not longer.
Whenever we travel south – from Delaware to South Carolina, Georgia or Florida, we like to take a side trip to Jekyll Island. Any trip to Jekyll means a walk on the beach because it is a beautiful and wondrous place to be, morning, noon or night. Yes, we have done all three – from sunrise over the Atlantic to moonrise over the beach – and all times in between.
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What an atmospheric place! I love driftwood though you don’t get much here in Central Italy. I used to love beach combing on foreign travel back in the day.
Thank you, Dorothy, for the wonderful adjective – I never thought of Driftwood beach that way – but it really is. I suppose from where you live you need to do a bit of travel to find real driftwood in the wild.
Gorgeous image Bill. It has been too many years since I last visited Jekyll Island, although we were just across the bridge when we stayed on St. Simons.
Much luck to you in continuing your daily posts. I’ve read several without commenting. I have no doubt that you will finish off the year with more posts than you expected.
Thank you, Kathy, for the nice compliment. Jekyll Island, is, indeed, a fascinating place to visit. We also visited St. Simons last year and hope to get back there again – on our next foray to Georgia.