A few friends and I ventured down to Black’s Beach today. As I’ve mentioned before, it’s a great wide stretch of beach just north of La Jolla, beneath the cliffs of Torrey Pines State Park. Well today when we climbed down off the cliffs we immediately noticed all of this debris all over the beach. What is usually a very clean and clear wide beach, was just covered with heaps of tangled bamboo shoots. Bamboo is nowhere to be found in this area and so it quickly became clear that what we were probably looking at was the washed up remains of vegetation ripped out to sea from the Tsunami disaster all the way around the globe. 34 days later the currents found their way to the California coastline. It was really amazing and at the same time quite eerie. I wandered around picking and poking at the scattered piles and couldn’t help but wonder what far away remote places the bamboo perhaps once grew.

I took a few shots just to try and convey the strangeness of it all. This is truly usually a very bare beach. There are also a few additional images in my San Diego photography gallery.

Tsunami Bamboo

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