Beautiful scenery and long stretches of beach, typical of one that you would see along the beaches of British Columbia, is found on Denman Island in the Fillongley Provincial Park. Denman Island has a vast expanse of pebbly beaches with trees and grasses that reach almost to the shore which is littered with driftwood.
From this beach at Fillongley Provincial Park you can see Hornby Island in the background separated by the Strait of Georgia, which is a major body of water along the West Coast coast of Canada. Standing on this beach with all the driftwood you can almost forget that you are even part of civilization as all you can hear is the sea washing up on shore, some sea birds calling to each other, and the whistle of the wind blowing off the water and through the trees. ... continue below the picture...
... This beach seems like a very peaceful place and is just one of the many wonderful areas of stupendous scenery that Canada has to offer.
Driftwood is wood that is washed up on shore by the action of the sea or a river, and is considered marine debris along with shells and anything else that the sea may offer up to the land. The reason there is so many full logs on a number of Canadian beaches is due to the fact that logs are transported by water down to the mills as opposed to land. There are so many logs that are moved in this way every year that there is bound to be some that break free and make their way to the beaches. Here they will become bleached by the sun and smoothed by the action of the tides.
Driftwood strewn along the beach at Fillongley Provincial Park on the eastern shores of Denman Island with a view towards Hornby Island, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada.
Technical Information:
I photographed this photo with the digital SLR camera model Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, aperture of f/10.0, exposure time of 20/1 sec. on ISO 100, as always I used a original Canon Lens, the focus lenght for this picture was 17mm.