Oak - clinging to the rock face of life!

[Mat]

Location wise, here are my bets:

 

South coast, Fowey estuary.

 

North coast Camel estuary.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Difficult to see from the pictures but:

 

post No.10 pic 3 - there is no ground contact as the limb comes down then goes back up - amazing!

 

post No. 8 pic 1 - there is no ground contact under that main stem! Pic 5 - look closely to see that tree base extends some 5-6 feet away from the bank. It looks like it's joined, but it kind of juts out and that is shingle bank behind - gravity defying!

 

Post 3 pic 2, unbelievable - gravity defying!

 

Post 1, pics 1,2 & 3 - just unbelievable!

 

I left wife & little one in play park and said I'll be back in 10 minutes. 20 mins later got a text thinking it would be a "so where are you" but it was "taken little one to loo, meet you at LR in 10" - phew!!

 

Literally stubbled on these by chance and only had a very limited time to cover a couple of 100m of shoreline. These were literally meters apart with more around every corner.

 

Will have to talk to ATF (Cornwall) about potential listing.

[AllTreeNeeds]

Cracking pictures

[jomoco]

Archimedes' bony kneed trees!

 

Jomoco

[devon TWiG]

I do quite a lot of kayaking in and around S Devon , coast and estuaries and there is absolutely loads of stuff like this , I must take some photos next time I am out , some of my favourites are very small islands of seemingly solid rock with just 1 or 2 trees growing on it , it baffles me how they obtain any nutrients let alone water except salty !!! mostly evergreen oaks .....also very large quantities of dead oaks just laying in tidal creeks especially on the river Dart ...

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I wish I'd thought to put something in for scale - some of these are serious sized trees virtually hanging in clean air from 20 degree arc of available rooting. Mind bending! Most on AT will appreciate scale but was just showing the wife and had to explain scale to describe the enormity of the stresses.

Edited September 4, 2016 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[TGB]

Nothing quite like nature, in overcoming adversity.

[7610]

Lovely trees.

[WirralBoy]

Kevin,

In 1963 I was rowing up the Tamar in a clinker built boat from HMS Raleigh.

 

I either didn't get that far up the river or I was too young to notice the beauty of those trees.