Many of the Pacific Northwest coast beaches have a common feature. Logs of wood washed up on the shore, just lying on the beach. These would have been trees from the coastal forests which fell due to wind or floods. Some trees would end up travelling thousands of miles as far up as North from British Columbia and all the way down to Northern California. Single most factor which decides their journey is the wind. As they drift along the Ocean, they become food for various marine species and birds. Once they reach the shores they provide shelter to many animals and nesting grounds to turtles. some times they form the foundation of Sand dunes which stretch across thousands of acres.
Amazing how something which takes life in a pristine forest, lives static all of its life, gets uprooted by a gust, ends up travelling thousands of miles at the whims of the wind providing food for marine life as it drifts, washes up on some random beach and over the course of a few centuries ends up becoming foundation of a giant sand dune.
I wonder how many stories it can tell us if it could. Driftwood!
