30 KINDS of PETRIFIED WOOD! Visiting Washington's Gingko Petrified Forest
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- čas přidán 25. 12. 2021
- Kate and Jim make a Christmas road trip and stop at the Gingko Petrified Forest State Park near Ellensburg, Washington. The huge petrified logs on display at the park are 15 MILLION years old! Inside the interpretive center, the park has collected specimens of at least 30 different types of petrified wood, all labeled by tree type. It's a petrified wood lover's paradise! Come along!
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That petrified wood is awesomely beautiful! And colorful!
It was so cool to see it all in one place.
My favorite was all of them!
Sweet!
It's wonderful that they are preserving those specimens for future generations. Thanks for sharing!
Our pleasure!
I love it petripied wood it is healing stone wood for spiritual matter
Me too!
So much beautiful wood!
Thank you! :)
What a fun adventure. Thanks for sharing your experience. 😊
Thank you for having me alone. V
Thanks for joining us! :)
I love petrified wood 😝
Me too!
We visited this place on an RV trip the year before the pandemic. The visitor center is well worth the stop to see all the beautiful specimens. And some of the tourist shops and rock shops in the area sell jewelry made from petrified wood. I have a pair of earrings made from two round cabochons of gingko petrified wood as a souvenir of the trip.
The shop was closed, as it was Sunday - but it was definitely worth the visit! :)
Wow! Glad you went and took us along
Glad you enjoyed it! :)
thank you for including the slideshow. absolutely incredible.
Glad you enjoyed it!
yup, i knew i was sharpening my stone axe for a reason!! i`m heading S.W. to cut down some of you guys` pet wood forests,,, thank you and JIM for taking us along
:) Thanks for joining us.
Madre mía, que preciosidad !!!!
Me encantan los fósiles y los minerales.😍
Gracias, amiga.
Naughty jail wood rocks!
:D
I visited one petrified forest museum but it wasn't in Washington. Those are Gorgeous pieces, Glad you and Jim were able to visit and looks like a great learning experience too . I always love learning .
That sounds fun! We learned a lot.
Wow, this is my kind of video. I love, love, love PW. I don't think there's a black sheep in the family at all. Thanks for making this and providing the amazing, comprehensive display at the end. Awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Each one was beautiful. That Cypress, was stunning. Thank you for taking us along and I didn’t even have to pack.
I also looovvve petrified wood! one of my favorites :-) those are all stunning pieces!
Thanks so much! 😊
I like the one with my initials carved in it, ha ha! Thanks large for posting.
:D Surely you aren't THAT old!
@@KatyDidRocks I got that old DÉJÀ VU. I looked up the scab lands and the ancient ice dam from that area. The research was truly fascinating.
Thanks for sharing and the education ❣️
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Thank you Kate and Jim. Helping me see more of things and places I can 't get to. Ned Zinger(Nick Zentner) is solidly motivating, eh?
I do love his work.
Katy the petrified forest national park in Arizona has whole trees laid out there. It's beautiful too. It's not that far from you. You would love it.
It's on my bucket list! ;)
Very cool video Kate 😎 the variations in colors was astounding.🤓
They really are!
Love this video. I love, absolutely love petrified wood. It’s my favorite, even over agate. There is something special about holding what used to be a living tree that’s millions of years old. I find it fascinating and incredible. I can only imagine the way the world looked back then. If only the trees could talk…
You are 100% right! 😊
Right on a new video :-) hello Kate I hope you had a great Christmas :-)
I hope you did too!
Amazing! Would love to go there. Thank you for sharing.
It's worth a visit, Karen! Thanks for watching. :)
Beautiful! I was there about 20 years ago but somehow missed the giant logs laying around. Probably because i had my kids with me.
Pretty sure that’s why. 😆
LOL, they'll do that! Or it's possible they weren't there and the museum moved them in.
Wow!! What gorgeous petrified wood! I loved the “picture” ones a lot! Thanks for taking us along! I hope you are able to enjoy many more cool sites, and get warm!☕️☕️
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Fascinating! I love ginkgos and didn't think that they were native anywhere but China except for eons ago. Fabulous wood and video! I have visited the petrified forest in Arizona. Thanks for letting us tag along!
Apparently they even grow in the Pacific Northwest!
Absolutely, an awesome afternoon idea! Glad you took us along and thank you for sharing 🤩
Jim is the more magnificent 😉
I hope you have a safe, healthy, fun, holiday 🤩
Stay Crystal 💫
Thank you! :)
Wow, what a cool place! I might have visited there when I was a child and didn't appreciate it. I'm going to have to see it again! They sure have a lot of different types of wood represented. It must have been collected from many different places. Kris, of Old Guy Adventures, is the man to talk to about Ellensburg Blue. I hope this trip is taking the place of your cruise. I thought, "how did Kate and Jim get all the way to central Washington so fast?!" Have a fun time! Thank you for sharing the excitement! 😊
:D My parents live in The Dalles, so we drove out to visit them when it became clear we were not going anywhere warm. It's not the same, but it's good to see them.
The internal paths of this open-air museum also seem petrified!
:)
Thank you, Kate! This is awesome!! Another wish added to my bucket list. 🙂
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
There is a petrified forested area in Vicksburg, Mississippi,,there are several fundamental of whole petrified trees in Alabama.and Texas has abundant petrified wood,I believe it is ,gingko, In Weatherford texas,Texas, is an entire garden estate that was gifted to the city,that has all the beds and trails bordered by petrified wood!
How wonderful! Obviously the map is incomplete. :)
Amazing video,nice place,congratulations!!
Thank you for sharing it!!
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)
Absolute beauty! I love petwoods! Agatized petwoods a ton! Just to refresh..you have found a blue agate off the Yellowstone 1 year ago 😉 made me go out hunting for one & my bf found one instead. Always a good day when we get out to rockhound. (Blgs,MT)
You are right! Blues exist along the Yellowstone, although they are rare. Apparently the Ellensburg Blue is even more rare! Thanks for the reminder!
I was thru that area 5 years ago but didn’t realize it was there. I marked it down in hopes I’ll be by there again. Thanks for the interesting video!
Wonderful! It's a cool place to visit - preferably in warmer weather!
We have been there. The information center was really good, but the trail was a waste. Not much pet wood on the trail, but a few good views. Thanks for showing it to us. There is a really good rock shop just out if the park. Have fun, be safe and stay healthy 😷⚒
LOL, as cold as it was, we only visited four stumps before calling it a day. It was interesting, but I felt bad for the imprisoned petrified wood. :)
@@KatyDidRocks free the pet, free the pet, free the pet. I can hear the crowds now.
I actually have a piece of petrified wood from the gift shop there. Also, a little further up the road are the diatomaceous earth mines where I’ve collected a bunch of opalized bogwood with some nice colors
The gift shop was closed when we visited (it was Sunday). Ooooh, that sounds amazing - I've never found any bogwood, but I sure would like to!
Your videos have been some of my favorite on CZcams for a while now. Considering the volume of alternatives, that’s a pretty big compliment! Thank you!!!
Thank you very much - I'm glad you enjoy them. :)
There is a small pet wood park about 5miles east of Buffalo Wyo out in the prairie. It is small. I I had the ranch land next to it I would be out there with a backhoe😆
I understand they use poles to find logs underground - a backhoe might break up the pieces.
Happy holidays to you Kate and family. My best buddy gave me your book for Christmas! And it's beautiful.
Fantastic! I hope you enjoy it.
@@KatyDidRocks Are you kidding, I had a couple of other presents from Kathy to open but I sat there with the book for like 10 minutes looking through it! It's beautiful!
Really cool! I always wanted to go there! Being a woodworker and a rockhound this made me very happy. the old growth agatized Douglas Fir logs were incredible, as well as every single other species!! Thanks for sharing this cool place :)
Happy Holidays
Oh, you definitely need to go there. :)
@@KatyDidRocks Kate, the funny thing is I work with Locust wood, Madrona, douglas fir, and myrtle wood. It's amazing those logs have been laying there for 15 million years!!! I loved the gallery and the prisoner logs lol
The thing that amazes me, is that it all looks like rotting wood, but it's actually rock now.
Truly amazing, I agree. That's part of why I love petrified wood.
Did they check your pockets when you left 😁. Hope that yous have a happy New Year and stay safe in 2022 👍🇦🇺
LOL, the pieces were solidly behind glass, lucky for them!
have you ever come across any opalized petrified wood?
Very nice thank you. I also love pet wood, did some collecting next to the petrified forest near Holbrook AZ, not in the park itself but on private land right next door. Don't know if you have heard of the Dobell Ranch, they allow you to dig there. Of course for a fee but they are very reasonable. If you don't wish to dig they have many fine samples laying about, but the fun is in the digging and knowing that the pieces you dug up are seeing the light of day for the first time in millions of years. Arizona pet is very colorful. I do wish to go back too. I might have some extra pieces if you are interested? Thanks again, enjoyed this. Outside the Smithsonian Institute in DC there is a petrified wood slab of several feet across that came from the Dobell Ranch! Very beautiful
I HAVE heard of the Dobell Ranch - it's definitely a bucket list. :) Petrified wood is so cool.
@@KatyDidRocks Couldn't agree more, be safe
Katy did you were in my neck of the woods look for any e blues? did you make it to tri cities and get some columbia basin agates? Love your videos
I did no hunting, as it was snowy, but I sure would like to find some of those blues!
Excellent video. Do you know by chance what kind of Petrified wood(s) we find in the lower Yellowstone?
I'm not sure - but I'm going to try to do some identification when I get home, now that I know what I'm looking for. It has to do with grain and cell structure. Also, thanks. :)
Great sound track music . The imprisoned maple was falsely charged as a hardened criminal.. . . . Was just from a stoned member of a splinter group . Hahaha. Got a lot more and I'm on stage every Thursday evening at seven fifteen.
LOL!
It’s a shame they don’t have the petrified forest in Theodore Roosevelt national park in media’s North Dakota on there. Not many people know about it but it has huge massive trees in it. It’s a hike but there are hundred of trees that are bigger than most anything in our state now. The trees are bigger than all of those by multiples. My boys and I are planning to go back for a hike this summer. Would be happy to show you how to get there. We live in baker and farm south of Golva
That sounds amazing! Next summer I hope to travel farther east to visit that area - I would love any pointers. :)
There are lots of cool pieces of wood. One thing I was wondering is how do they identify them?
They view them under a microscope and then compare what they see to real wood. Easy to ID some, but not all!
@@woodman4550 very interesting Thanks for the info!
Robert nailed it - I'm going to look into learning how to do IDs on some of the wood I find.
@@KatyDidRocks I use a USB microscope and my computer and a book called "identifying wood" by R Bruce Hoadley
@@woodman4550 Oooooh, heading to Amazon right now to find it!
Trees in jail? were they really naughty or just knotty? our family had a weekend property on the Columbia as a teen near Radium Hot Springs in BC. it’s a beautiful river! the glacier carved valleys it runs through are magnificent!
That pun made me laugh out loud - for real! :) That's wonderful. :)
Those were gorgeous. Were the different pieces donated or were they all found in that area ?😊 I've been looking for a way to identify the different petrified woods I find but haven't been able to yet. 😢 You should write another book. About petrified wood. Thanks for the tour. Keep on doing. 👍
I don't actually know the source of the specimens, but I do know that they are from all over the world! I am not nearly enough of an expert on petrified wood to dare think of writing a book about it - but I do have another one I'm thinking about. :)
You go girl. thanks for getting back to me. You and Jim keep on doing. Do it for those of us that can't go do!
Hey Katie, do you have any idea what type of petrified wood you find in Montana?
I've been told it's sycamore, but I'm going to have to look into it further.
* Those massive logs look Fresh. As if you could cut them with a hand saw & build things. Wouldn't some of them make Lovely TableTops?? Mr. Did has a great sense of the absurd.. TREE JAIL ~ [Shame on them for turning to Rock!! LOL.]. ~ How can the petrified wood like Redwood keep its Color when petrified?? I would love to find out How.. (Example at the 11:29 mark looks like fresh wood..)
Aren't they cool!?
IF I had the land……
:D
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Wow! Such a gorgeous collection they have there, some of those colors.😍 Thank you so much for sharing your visit with us! Take care and stay warm and safe.✌🤠
It was cool to see all of them collected in one place. :)