Is it me, or does it rather instead look like they arranged tree branches + leaves to make the word, not dug in sand? And on another note, when you see things

Is it me, or does it rather instead look like they arranged tree branches + leaves to make the word, not dug in sand? And on another note, when you see things from an island scale, you can see that even at the size they drew those letters, it might've been missed. The world is big...