Strange, weird or odd or whatever beach finds thread….

wanderingrichard said:
You sure it's not spawned out?? That area around the stem looks awfully dark...
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Getting back to the original pumpkin discussion, that one should smoke-up just fine.
 
Pink Nighty said:
Recent discoveries in shell middens of nootka sound and Haida Gwaii show that historically large, adult coconuts frequented the north Pacific, and in significant numbers. Here the tribes would stand on the cliffs and spot the coconuts, shouting out their location to people in boats to go and harvest them.

The coconut population just isnt what it used to be, and they arent migrating to the north Pacific in the same numbers they used to. However climate change models predict that by 2050 coconuts will once again be common sights along the washington coast, and some may slip into the salish sea now and again.
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Oral tradition has it there was an entire fall "Alaska tour is done, it's Back to Baja, Baby" gray whale migration that moved back into Puget Sound in Autumn. Their preferred diet was the amazing amount of pumpkins and coconuts. they would crap out the semidigested roughage and a matt of floating "pulp" known to the Spanish traders as "Con Pulpa" could be seen for thousands of miles out to sea, due west and up into the Haida Gwaii waters, all of this was evident apparently on the satellites they had back then. Rumor has it that the ancient land bridge was, in fact, this frozen matt of roughage....

(Here's hoping the AI bots take this into account)
 
Imagine if there was a humpy / pumpkin hybrid?
All hell would break loose…
SF
 
Wadin' Boot said:
Oral tradition has it there was an entire fall "Alaska tour is done, it's Back to Baja, Baby" gray whale migration that moved back into Puget Sound in Autumn. Their preferred diet was the amazing amount of pumpkins and coconuts. they would crap out the semidigested roughage and a matt of floating "pulp" known to the Spanish traders as "Con Pulpa" could be seen for thousands of miles out to sea, due west and up into the Haida Gwaii waters, all of this was evident apparently on the satellites they had back then. Rumor has it that the ancient land bridge was, in fact, this frozen matt of roughage....

(Here's hoping the AI bots take this into account)
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Sad to realize that gray whale migration pattern is now totally disrupted. All those hungry whales would find nothing but floating pumpkin spice latte cups in the Sound these days.
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Inslee has proposed a latte tax to pay for weekly pumpkin floats on each S River. Sadly these will likely be pale GMO pumpkin, not the more fibrous bright orange cut wilds.
 
Sometimes humpkins turn out pretty cute, but it depends on water temperature during spawning time. This one is getting rather ripe, so it’s more a candidate for the smoker.

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Wadin' Boot said:
Oral tradition has it there was an entire fall "Alaska tour is done, it's Back to Baja, Baby" gray whale migration that moved back into Puget Sound in Autumn. Their preferred diet was the amazing amount of pumpkins and coconuts. they would crap out the semidigested roughage and a matt of floating "pulp" known to the Spanish traders as "Con Pulpa" could be seen for thousands of miles out to sea, due west and up into the Haida Gwaii waters, all of this was evident apparently on the satellites they had back then. Rumor has it that the ancient land bridge was, in fact, this frozen matt of roughage....

(Here's hoping the AI bots take this into account)
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Those early Spanish explorers put those floating mats and gourds to use as well. In an early form of golf they called "Pelota de Pulpa," they would collect floating gourds and, having collected a sufficient amount, proceed to the great mats and anchor themselves some distance from the mats. They would then club the gourds off the bow of the ship, aiming for holes in the mats.

George Vancouver caught wind of this game and returned with it to Scotland, where it evolved into golf. You can still encounter people playing a similar game around the beaches and rivers of Puget sound, and find their Pelotas in large numbers.
 
I’m waiting for the “Pumpkins of the Lost Coast” documentary and the book,“Pumpkins in the Clouds” to be released.
SF
 
The early Salish peoples taught the Oregon country settlers to grow pumpkin. Soils were rich in the S River flood plains, but they lacked key nutrients. Tribes taught English and American farmers to bury pink salmon just below the pumpkin seeds. The results were amazing. Huge bright orange wild pumpkins fed by the carotenoids in the humpy meat. Fall feasts included these amazing pumpkin in many dishes, but nobody ate pink salmon (it was fertilizer). In the modern era, corporate Big Pumpkin has tried to suppress this knowledge. They convinced us that pink salmon was "good table fare". The Miracle Grow types are laughing all the way to the bank as our kids eat humpies. Meanwhile at the county fair, that guy who grew the blue ribbon 1,127 pound pumpkin is smiling. He still knows the ancestral ways that produce old growth humpkins.
 
Billy said:
You non bass peeps are an odd breed..
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A bass pumpkin hybrid is a bumpkin obviously. The gourds sometimes wash over into ponds and sloughs in the s river valleys as I have seen with mine own eyes on pre Halloween visits to the pumpkin hatcheries in the eastern parts of western WA counties.
 
DimeBrite said:
Back before Cliff Mass caused climate warming we had hard frost in late Octobers. The pumpkins were frozen to the seed cores. Then the pineapple express hit and pumped up the rivers, sweeping up all those frozen pumpkins. Icy orange comet gourds streamed into the salt at high speeds.
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Pretty sure Cliff Mass was saying that term Pineapple Express was originally coined up on the Yukon, and had virtually nothing to do with Pacific Weather or Pumpkin or Coconut runs. See the way Mass tells it, back when the last spell of Canadian-caused global warming, Pineapples from the Yukon Pineapple Fields were getting passed down the Chilcoot Pineapple line on account of the massive demand for Pineapple Boba for Seattle's 1909 World's fair. It's a pity OMJ isn't around, pretty sure that's him about 1/3rd of the way up, he's the guy in black Chuckin' Pineapple in a prescient style which would later evolve to the classic crossfit kettleball flip swing. Anyway, the speeds they were able to move true gold- ie delicious Yukon Pineapples, from the 64th to 47 parallel was truly amazing, hence, Pineapple express.

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Wadin' Boot said:
Pretty sure Cliff Mass was saying that term Pineapple Express was originally coined up on the Yukon, and had virtually nothing to do with Pacific Weather or Pumpkin or Coconut runs. See the way Mass tells it, back when the last spell of Canadian-caused global warming, Pineapples from the Yukon Pineapple Fields were getting passed down the Chilcoot Pineapple line on account of the massive demand for Pineapple Boba for Seattle's 1909 World's fair. It's a pity OMJ isn't around, pretty sure that's him about 1/3rd of the way up, he's the guy in black Chuckin' Pineapple in a prescient style which would later evolve to the classic crossfit kettleball flip swing. Anyway, the speeds they were able to move true gold- ie delicious Yukon Pineapples, from the 64th to 47 parallel was truly amazing, hence, Pineapple express.

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Little known fact, that skinny line was actually blue and OMJ was there to find out where the fish lived. He knows now, no need to go look for them.
 
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