Field guide No. 640
Coral blossoms in desert tire tracks
Something drove through the reef.
On cracked dry ground a set of deep tyre tracks curves away into the distance, and pink and orange coral grows thick in every tread. The sea must have been in the car.
Field noteCoral needs seawater and gets none here. It has grown along a tyre track in baked mud as if the tread were a reef.
Also possible, also breaking physics
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