Elfin forest

Posted on April 20, 2009 in Biomes Hiking Travels - So Cal

The coastal sage scrub community around the boardwalk seemed shorter than the forest that the signs promised. I had heard the [[chaparral]] called an elfin forest, which indeed it is, but I was unprepared for the Tolkienesque sight that awaited me among the marshes of southeast [[Morro Bay]].

Capturing the twisted chaos of trunks, branches and leaf litter was not easy and I don’t think I succeeded. These puzzles made out of oak need to be entered and loitered beneath.

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