02 December 2011

Drift log


This washed up on the beach at La Push, "a small community on the northwest coast of Washington's most westerly peninsula."  The young woman standing in front of it is 6 feet tall.

Found at Our Amazing Planet, via The Presurfer.

12 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    has any of the Japanese tsunami debris washed up yet? I guess this could have been in Canada also. I'm not a dendrologist

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  2. RothwellaDecember 2, 2011 at 12:13 PM

    @ Anonymous At the link it said the picture was taken on April 5 of 2010.

    Thats got to be at least 18-20 feet tall.

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  3. FletcherDecember 2, 2011 at 12:21 PM

    My immediate guess is Sitka spruce. They're the redwoods of the north, growing slowly (and hugely) in the same narrow geographical band that redwoods thrive in (i.e. the fog belt). Old growth Sitkas are something to behold.

    My second guess is Douglas fir, due to the straightness of that trunk (Sitkas tend to be more gnarled). But it's not common for Douglas firs to escape logging long enough to reach that size.

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  4. MinnesotastanDecember 2, 2011 at 12:23 PM

    Anon, the Japanese tsunai debris isn't due to arrive at the American mainland until 2013 -

    http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/04/japanese-tsunami-debris-heading-toward.html

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  5. DanielleDecember 2, 2011 at 5:12 PM

    I surf at La Push often and that log has been there for years. There are several other, though not quite as impressively large but large nonetheless, strewn all over first, second and third beach.

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  6. AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 5:20 PM

    Does this have anything to do with the vampires and werewolves in the area?

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  7. MinnesotastanDecember 2, 2011 at 5:27 PM

    danielle, I envy you the experience. You can't imagine how unimaginably cool all this looks to someone stranded a thousand miles from the nearest ocean.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 9:26 PM

    That thing must have made a blue whale give it a second look when THAT was floating around...

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  9. AnonymousDecember 2, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    How do we know it didn't just fall off that hill in the background and wash ashore a couple minutes later during a wicked bad storm?

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  10. leoeleDecember 3, 2011 at 8:36 PM

    I don't think that tree was there in 2007 when I visited. I did take a few pictures, perhaps some of you will be interested.

    http://leoele.blogspot.com/2007/08/forks-and-la-push.html

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  11. scottDecember 5, 2011 at 8:44 AM

    It's probably a bonsai from the Japanese tsunami debris. This is what happens if you don't prune them regularly.

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  12. twellveDecember 6, 2011 at 3:33 PM

    lol. had a similar thought...


    Anonymous said...

    Does this have anything to do with the vampires and werewolves in the area?

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