A storm has washed away almost all the sand on a beach in co. Mayo, Ireland. Where the sand has been washed away, only black peat now remains.

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Here and there stumps emerge, called bog oak, remnants of a forest that must have been here hundreds or thousands of years ago. The shapes of the wood of the whitened tree stumps are works of art in themselves.

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Location: Fahy, Ballycroy, co. Mayo, Ireland
Photo credit: © Bo Scheeringa / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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