Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce.
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@GPJohnston We see a lot of potential guitars here...
@therockfiles I have a guitar with a spruce top!
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@GPJohnston I've got a great picture of me and both kids in the root wad of that tree probably ten years ago now
@sarae It’s impressive. Saw a drift log at Kalaloch South Beach Campground once that was maybe as big, smaller root wad but thicker trunk, as I recall. Quite awhile ago.
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@therockfiles I have a guitar with a spruce top!
@GPJohnston I like spruce top guitars, esp. classical guitars!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
WOW.
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston Wow! Must have been quite a sight to see that tree moving thru the water!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston you almost expect some megafauna to come lumbering by
Epic photo
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@GPJohnston Wow! Must have been quite a sight to see that tree moving thru the water!
@RobinApple Had to have been a mighty storm to wash it out to sea and throw it ashore!
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@RobinApple Had to have been a mighty storm to wash it out to sea and throw it ashore!
@GPJohnston Absolutely!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston Wow!
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston That would be fun to radiocarbon date...
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston
That is amazing. I went to La Push in 2009 (my daughter and my wife both were Twilight fans) and I don't think that was there. In general, the amount of timber that gets washed ashore in the PNW is astounding. I can remember walking along a beach on Vancouver Island decades ago that had literally hundreds of trucks piled on shore—the ones the timber industry couldn't fish out of the river in time. They since all been recovered. -
Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston Someone needs to take Clifford for a walk on that beach.
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@GPJohnston That would be fun to radiocarbon date...
@Brad_Rosenheim safe to say the tree lived at least a couple hundred years, but the life span of Sitka spruce is less than 500 years.
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@GPJohnston Someone needs to take Clifford for a walk on that beach.
@chrisp Not sure even Clifford could handle that one.
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Here I stand, a tiny human, at the root wad of maybe the biggest drift log I've seen, a gargantuan Sitka spruce. It's been lodged in the sand of First Beach at La Push for several years. The beast undoubtedly came down on high flows one of the rivers of the Olympic rain forests. My sweetie took the pic. #ThickTrunkTuesday #AltText
@GPJohnston For anyone that hasn't seen the sign
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@GPJohnston For anyone that hasn't seen the sign
@Mr_Briney that one ain’t going anywhere soon, but definitely not a good idea to be around logs in the surf.
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@GPJohnston We see a lot of potential guitars here...
@therockfiles @GPJohnston I was gonna say, there's a lot of potential music in a big ol' Sitka spruce.
(I like Adirondack, what a snob.)
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@therockfiles @GPJohnston I was gonna say, there's a lot of potential music in a big ol' Sitka spruce.
(I like Adirondack, what a snob.)
@fivetonsflax @GPJohnston Hi Ben, who or what is Adirondack?
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@fivetonsflax @GPJohnston Hi Ben, who or what is Adirondack?
@therockfiles @GPJohnston Hi! It's another species of spruce, which was the main source of acoustic guitar tops in the US until WWII. Some people think it sounds better than Sitka.
