Debris derby

The river is a spectacle today. It's flowing high and fast, and is loaded with debris. Down the center of the channel is a steady stream of floaters -- logs, branches, plastic bottles, blobs of styrofoam, plastic bags, and junk of all sorts. At 10:40 a.m. I checked the tides -- which affect the river here even 80 miles inland -- low tide would have been around 9:15 a.m., so it's past slack and the tide should be coming in until around 3:00 p.m. -- but this is all moving fast downriver. These photos were all taken within maybe a half hour and are just part of what was speeding by outside my window. Every time I looked up it was something new and lots of very big logs ...