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Having witnessed the king tide-driven driftwood/log boom escape carnage, up close and personal, out at Iona Point over the last few weeks, I reckon Mr. Hume has a point:
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Imagine what would happen if the new Eby government were to re-boot the Beachcombers, for real, and set up a program whereby thousands of Relics swarmed our beaches and cleaned up all the drift for a pegged fibre price.
Imagine the jobs!
Imagine the beautiful foreshore!
Imagine the homegrown electric outboard motor industry that could be kick-started!
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Meanwhile, the good Mr. Shaw figures Mr. Eby hasn't done enough because he's done too much too fast in his first 50 days...And besides, the things Eby has already done are not the things he hasn't yet done...Or some such thing.
Having witnessed the king tide-driven driftwood/log boom escape carnage, up close and personal, out at Iona Point over the last few weeks, I reckon Mr. Hume has a point:
So.
Imagine what would happen if the new Eby government were to re-boot the Beachcombers, for real, and set up a program whereby thousands of Relics swarmed our beaches and cleaned up all the drift for a pegged fibre price.
Imagine the jobs!
Imagine the beautiful foreshore!
Imagine the homegrown electric outboard motor industry that could be kick-started!
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Meanwhile, the good Mr. Shaw figures Mr. Eby hasn't done enough because he's done too much too fast in his first 50 days...And besides, the things Eby has already done are not the things he hasn't yet done...Or some such thing.
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And just what do you expect me to lean against? .. as I wander along Spanish Banks, Kits Beach ... those groomed logs, precisely placed, and then removed during the Winter months...
NVG--
The groomed logs are fine!
We'll pay the army....errrr...navy of Relics a pretty penny to find us the best groomed logs for the swimming/sand imported beaches.
You want Relics? How about Nick (Bruno Gerussi)?
@ CBC Vancouver Archives
https://blogborgcollective.blogspot.com/2022/11/cbc-1964-cariboo-country-education-of.html
I remember that post! It's a good one.
As for Mr. G....As long as he does not bring along his medallions, I guess he can be part of the navy as well.
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Yes, bring back the beach combers.
I have wondered the same thing, even before this latest king tide event. I would think there is money to be made and wood products to be manufactured with this “waste” wood. As well it has got to be a hazard to navigation.
I used to work on a fish boat at one time and my family had a 30’ sailboat we shared with another family before that so I have seen what a partially submerged log or dead head can do. I recall back in the day I think it was CKNW that had some kind of regular marine report during the popular boating season. As part of this one could get these little CKNW flags on a long spike sort of thing
and if you saw a deadhead you could flag it to warn other boaters. I thought it was a good thing.
I don’t see any log salvagers now, maybe they are still around but…
Graham--
I had no idea about the CKNW deadhead flags! Would love to see one of those. Man, we have abandoned so much in the race to the metaverse.
In talking to my Dad, the old(ish) hauler of logs, about the driftwood/salvage thing once, he mentioned that one of the issues, at least for milling, is the salt as it is hard on cutting blades apparently.
But, regardless, the pulp/fiber must be worth something that could be used to offset the cost of the clean-up.
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They have got to be of some use somehow. I could see the salt from the water being a problem. I know for a beach fire the wood always smelled different when burning, a little more stinky.
There are places in the world that repurpose and salvage wood from house demos, shipping crates, fallen trees etc. Basically almost nothing goes in the land fill and is recycled. They don’t have the seemingly endless (now we can see an end) forests that we do. There’s probably money to be made there for the person that can come up with some good ideas.
Some of those logs I was able to pick up and take home about 20 yrs ago and used them in the garden. They're great for fences. Always wanted a few of the really large logs, but I'd need a boat, truck, and crane. Thought they'd be nice to place on the property line instead of a fence and have something to sit on at the same time.
Great picture of the two "beachcombers".
Fifty years went so fast but time caught up with all of us. Only two actors are still alive and L.S. Strange.
The show is still being run in some parts of the world.
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