An exposed stump and root system sits in a tidepool in the fog before sunrise in the ghost forest, Neskowin, Oregon.

Though nobody knows the origins of the ghost forest, it is theorized that sometime within the last 2,000 years a cataclysmic earthquake caused this chuck of forest to drop to sea level. Then preserved by sand and mud, they are around today rather than naturally eroding.

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From Oregon Coast