Just a short walk from Georgia's Jekyll Island Campground stretched the Villas By The Sea Resort and Clam Creek Picnic Area, Driftwood Beach is a place of mesmerizing beauty; it is a tree graveyard with miles of incredibly shaped dead trees and fallen branches that have been whipped and bleached by the winds and tides. The beach is a great place for an introspective stroll, and it is a photographers' dream, as it is secluded and often empty.

It also serves as a fantastic background for wedding photos, so do not be surprised if you see a few well-dressed people walking through the sand. The sunsets from Driftwood Beach are spectacular. Erosion of the north end of the island due to development over the last hundred years is what caused the extensive death of the trees. Most of the them have been cut for construction, and land was cleared for the building of golf courses, leaving the rest of the vegetation with no protection from nature's power.

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