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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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.
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@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.
@fivetonsflax @GPJohnston I like spruce tops a lot!
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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 wonderful. And might I also say that when you look at the thumbnail it looks like you have a long head of blonde hair blowing out behind you, like a model in a photo shoot, but when you enlarge the image you realise it's just light on the tree behind your head
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@GPJohnston wonderful. And might I also say that when you look at the thumbnail it looks like you have a long head of blonde hair blowing out behind you, like a model in a photo shoot, but when you enlarge the image you realise it's just light on the tree behind your head
@ebauche Don't I wish I had that much hair!
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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 Definitely a subject that benefits by having a human in the shot.
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@GPJohnston Definitely a subject that benefits by having a human in the shot.
@CStamp Yes, I have shots of it without, but they are less interesting, lacking the perspective to show just how huge this thing is.
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