{"id":134,"date":"2026-01-24T20:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2026-01-24T20:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T20:56:16","slug":"driftwood-on-gyllyngvase-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/driftwood-on-gyllyngvase-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Driftwood on Gyllyngvase Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_1932-768x1024.png\" alt=\"Driftwood on Gyllyngvase beach\" class=\"wp-image-133 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_1932-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_1932-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_1932-1152x1536.png 1152w, https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img_1932.png 1500w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Wooden plank on Gylly<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The sea after a storm can sometimes cough up the most interesting objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This 12 foot lump of wood was found whilst walking in the beach after a January storm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two suggestions of where the wood came from range from a prop that was holding up a yacht in Penryn and that it was part of the Falmouth wharf in the harbour and that it had come from a fire from 2001. The would be in 19 century coming from when the wharf was originally built and apparently it\u2019s a Canadian pine tree with a very nice red about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A friend wanted to take it from the beach to his garden but needed a van. I\u2019m not sure if he succeeded it was very heavy probably needed about four people to lift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the great things I\u2019ve lived by the sea is being able to be surprised by what is washed up on the beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And there\u2019s always another storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sea after a storm can sometimes cough up the most interesting objects. This 12 foot lump of wood was found whilst walking in the beach after a January storm. The two suggestions of where the wood came from range from a prop that was holding up a yacht in Penryn and that it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-falmouth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aberfal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}