Beach Logs Can Kill
That’s what some of the signs say posted on some beaches at the Olympic National Park in Washington. At first you think it’s some sort of joke, but it only takes one close call to realize they’re not kidding. These logs are what’s left of trees that get washed out into the ocean from the many rivers emptying into the ocean. On the journeys down the rivers, they get scrubbed of branches and bark, and eventually end up piled on top of each other when storms wash them back ashore.
Many of them are quite large, and people end up walking, i.e. balancing on them. It’s seems like fun. Except some logs ocassionally roll off whatever they’re balanced on. Log rollers end up in the water when they fall. Here you may end up under the log, with potentially serious injuries, if not worse.
