Everyone calls it the D.R. or R.D. if speaking it properly in Spanish... by the way.
The beach I am staying on is not very good for swimming. It could be considered very dangerous or even deadly because no one is watching and if you were in trouble i don't think anyone would come to save you. I am a very strong swimmer but even i was not going to chance it. However, the beach had some pretty interesting aspects to it - such as this fella.
You've heard of driftwood right? How about drift tree! This thing was easily 40 feet long and the diameter in the middle was much larger than i could reach around.
According to my pals, it has been there for several years and I have a hard time believing that it is ever going to move anywhere seeing as how there are enormous branches under the sand as well. Apparently, it washed up on shore after a really bad storm and it has been there ever since. It is not rotting at all, i went up close to press on the branches and it is solid as a rock.
When i encounter things like this it makes me want to get a real camera because the waves were crashing into the tree hard every couple minutes but i couldn't capture this on my crappy phone camera. It makes me wonder how long this thing will be here, as it is being attacked by waves 24-hours a day, every day and it doesn't deteriorate.
Maybe it is boring to you folks but i found it awe-inspiring and a bit spooky. I will come back here in a few years and see how it has gotten along. I'll put money on it still being there since it would take a massive crane to move it.
One thing I really enjoyed about this beach (which was pretty unusable by the way) is the fact that there was no garbage on the beach. Nice one Dominicans!