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wood that quit the forest, joined the ocean, and came back wiser and weirder.
means Wood that has been carried by water and washed up onto a shore, often weathered smooth and bleached by its journey.
from A plain compound of "drift" + "wood." "Drift" comes from Old English/Old Norse roots tied to the verb "drive" — originally meaning a driving or being driven along, which is exactly what the sea does to a loose log. So driftwood is, quite literally, wood driven about by current and tide. The word has floated in English since around the 17th century.
- sea time
- can float for years before landing ashore
- animal rafts
- once carried lizards across entire oceans
- silver gray
- salt and sun bleach it to driftwood's signature color
- reef builder
- sunken logs become deep-sea creature habitats
driftwood beach jekyll island — georgia coastal beach famous for thousands of bleached tree trunks, major tourist attraction
driftwood point state park — oregon coastal park on the pacific where driftwood accumulates in massive quantities