I found this slingshot with the word ‘Yosemite’ on it in a creek covered in mayfly larvae. I cleaned off the bugs (and took some photos of them too) and took it with me. The funny part is that I found it in the wrong National Park. The creek I pulled it out of was in Lassen Volcanic NP.
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Magpie-jays have an introduced population in that area.
I once found an entire Ford Model-T partially buried in the woods. Also in the same area, an entire sealed jar of long-expired salsa just floating in a marsh.
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Why on earth would that even be a thing in the world?
In 2021 I was on a work crew,and I found an entire but very destroyed sound amplifier.
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Duh, this is where Shrek lives.
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And now I’m more confused than before😂
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It could’ve been a float for a fish trap or to mark a diving spot, made out of whatever was at hand…
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Best Fairy. Garden. EVER!
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I think my favourite strange item I’ve found was a bright orange plastic tag washed up on the beach with statement that the cargo had been properly packed and handled for off-shore locations and a dual signature on the back. Whatever the cargo was I don’t know, but clearly the statement and signatures did not apply to the tag itself.
Other weird things I’ve seen:
- A whole bunch of porn DVDs (when I was young enough to not really know what that was) dumped haphazardly in a small parking lot in front of a municipal water pumping station out in a forest
- An old cultipacker (piece of tractor-drawn agricultural equipment) in the middle of the woods
- Various things apparently left over from parties in the woods including an office chair and a pile of crab claws.
My granddad who was a strandfoged (“beach bailiff”, a public servant dealing with washed-up wreck) had some interesting histories of things washed ashore including a whole shipment of shoes, but almost entirely left ones; and a shipment of refrigerators but without the compressors installed, which people quickly started to try and steal not knowing that they were non-functional.
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Sid from Toy Story is at it again.
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I find a lot of trash when I’m out. My two best finds though, I believe fall under the category NSFW. Whenever I want to tell someone about them, I always ask them first how funny do they find South Park, anything less than hilarious I change the subject.
Besides that and the usual stuff.
Legos, money (20 bucks one time), tires, a bike, knife blade (just the blade, don’t know where the handle went). I had a great score finding a titanium hammer, those things can be expensive.
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More so, since they do eat little bits of our plastic 
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you can’t leave me hanging like that, literally watching south park now xD
Also a titanium hammer, that’s a great find!
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That could practically be a seafood commercial. “As fresh as an incoming tide.”
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Let’s put it this way, both finds involve rather different tastes when it comes to things usually done in private, possibly in one’s bedroom?
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Was just reminded of this post by a web exclusive episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
The episode was titled “Beach Dolls” and was about a bunch of dolls washing up on South Texas Beaches, and how a Mission Aransas Reserve sea turtle rehabilitation center sells them (and other beach litter / found objects) to raise money.
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