Driftwood

This massive piece of driftwood, which Zoe is examining, must have been deposited in the middle of the salt marsh a while ago when there were really high tides. Even so it is not often that the salt marsh is completely covered especially to a depth which would have been enough for this massive tree trunk to have floated out here. Presumably it has come from the river Biel. I don't usually come this way but had to backpedal today as the river near the beach was too deep to cross in wellingtons.

These wooden bridges were built by council workmen, no doubt at great cost, to provide a clear walkway across the salt marsh for horses. Whilst their ecological purpose to preserve the salt marsh is very laudable, I don't think the council reckoned with the waywardness of horses. Whenever I have seen horse been lead or ridden this way, the horses have always baulked at the prospect over going over the wooden bridges and preferred to step over the muddy water courses to the side of them.