Weekend Wanderings

I spent the weekend on Sapelo Island. Saturday morning, we woke up at 0530 and kayaked to Blackbeard Island. It’s interesting to note, that Blackbeard Island is not listed on google maps. Next time I go out there, I will have to steal a glance off of one of the local maps and sketch one for myself.

During our hike, or “death march” as I like to dub it (all in good fun), we came across a beach scattered with overturned trees that had became driftwood. I found myself wondering what the island had looked like in Blackbeard’s day as we stepped through, around, over, and near the large trunks and overturned roots. There were even a few trees and branches that poked up, out of the sand as if grabbing at the sunlight in a stubborn refusal to become just another piece of driftwood.

There was one branch that made the entire thing seem Lovecraftian. It didn’t have that dried, bleached look that all of the other trees and branches had. It was at least two shades darker than the darkest tree, and it looked almost petrified. The branch was twisted slightly as it spiked up, out of the ground, and I think I actually snickered because it looked like some sort of ancient tentacle…Cthulhu?

At the time, I was too exhausted to sift through everything to grab the camera, so yesterday I painted a watercolor of the scene (posted above). I am not a good artist by any means; I just paint and draw for the enjoyment I get out of it.


*Blackbeard Island is named after a pirate. I do not know the full story on him, but I plan to find that out when I go to Sapelo again. I feel that the internet would just dull the story because I know that this is something I can learn from “living in the moment” through word of mouth.