Put a cork in it

Little 'corks' as I call them. Wet as hell on the outside, but dry as a popcorn fart inside. This beach wood rolls up with the big tides and hits the shore for a lucky beach bum to find. Buzz it up with my new/awesome saw and I gots heat for a week. It's really quite fun to wander around the high tide mark searching for this wood that's probably been at sea for years, nice of it to show up on Haida Gwaii during the cold snap. It's a fun little hunt tracking down the best stuff. This is yellow cedar and burns super nice. We also find a lot of fir that burns equally well. It all looks the same on the outside, brown, and smells like a combination of ass and low tide, similar to my wetsuit, but once you take a hatchet to the shell, a great color and smell comes out of them. Pine is great to find, but quite rare. Red cedar has a scent out of this world, but not really a desirable wood for the stove. Whatever the case, very nice to be somewhat self sufficient with wood gathering and food gathering, and it really makes the trip to the beach, and the burning of the fossil fuels a more reasonable venture and a lot more of a justification of it all. Today has some fantastic swell and looks like a couple more days of it. At the hieasy with a schwack of folks from port and more and more new faces on the wave. Must be that prick with the surf shop in town telling everyone where to go. Wink.