Sunday, November 23, 2014

Big tree, long swim

A far traveling coastal redwood, and a colossal navigational hazard


This huge piece of driftwood washed up on the beach at La Push, a small community in Clallam County, Washington. La Push, surrounded by the lush forest of the Olympic National Park, is located on the northwest coast of Washington’s most westerly peninsula, at the mouth of the Quillayute River. The tree is a Sequoia Semper Virens, or Costal Redwood, which only grow on the coast range of northern California and a bit into Oregon.  It would have travelled hundreds of miles before being washed up on the beach at La Push.

You could mill that up and make at least 20 nice decks.  Redwood is famously resistant to rot and decay.

2 comments:

  1. It could have been floating around for eons. There's a place on Patterson Beach in Oregon that has semi petrified redwood "sawdust" from tons of trees getting crumbled up in the surf along rocky headlands. This most likely being from Cape Perpetua.

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