Adventure Location: Rockport, Texas
Most of the OFM’s life was spent in and around Galveston
Texas and the Galveston Bay Complex.
Here in Rockport there are a lot of differences from the “old area”. One of the differences is the fuzzy wood that
happens in this area. It is not known
why the wood in and around the water get fuzzy, but it does. These pictures tonight are of the wood pier
at the Rockport Beach.
In December of 2007 the wood on this pier was smooth and “normal”
looking. Over the years it has gotten
fuzzy. It is not only the pier but
pilings and buildings also get fuzzy. Why is the question being researched.
There three pictures are of the same rail section of the
pier. Each one is a closer picture of a section of the pier.
The fuzzy wood in the area is all sorts of styles.
Several different styles of fuzziness are evident in just the Rockport Beach
area. It does take a simple person to consider looking at fuzzy wood to be a
way of trying to have tooooo much fun. TheOFM.
I use to live across the street from the Pacific Ocean in California, never saw anything like that due to salt air, salt water spray ... interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat is an intriguing question. You are really observant. I DO hope somebody will know the answer! Enjoy keeping up with you.
ReplyDeleteReading blogs is my way of having fun!
My memory gets fuzzy, my vision gets fuzzy, but I have no idea why the wood gets fuzzy.
ReplyDeleteEven your face is fuzzy!
DeleteDang Barney, you sure made me laugh out loud, and so did my wife.
ReplyDeleteGreat. Laughter is wonderful medicine for the soul.
DeleteTermites???
ReplyDeleteI was researching 'fuzzy wood' damage on my house (Hawaii)... found an article regarding salt damage that seems to apply to your Rockport pictures:
ReplyDeletehttp://stjohns.ifas.ufl.edu/Sea/documents/SaltDamageToWood.pdf (If you don't want to click on the link, I entered 'fuzzy wood' in Google and found the above link as well as this blog page!)
WOW that is great information. Thank you.
Delete