A short documentary celebrates the fruits of almost five decades of ‘Extreme Beachcombing’ – Colossal

a gif from a short documentary showing a man wearing a black hat and jeans as he walks to the front of a garage door painted with the words "John's Beachcombing Museum"

For almost five decades, Forks, Washington, resident John Anderson, an enthusiasm has pursued an enthusiasm – someone could even call it an obsession – with things that was washing along the Pacific Northwest Coastline.

Describing his occupation as ‘extreme beach -component’, turned the pastime into a full -time passion when he withdrew from his sanitary lane and his store in Forks, Washington, transformed into John’s Beach Compbing Museum.

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An enchanting mini documentary by Ryan Pinkard and Christian Klintholm follows the fearless forager on beach races and through his archive of treasures. ‘Extreme beach having‘Is told entirely by Anderson, who takes us on a tour of his floor to ceiling Schat van Curiosa.

If you pass through Forks, John’s Beachcombing Museum is open most days from June to August. You can explore an abundance of people made by people floating from all over the world, from everyday plastic toys and dock boots to nuclear submarine-locator bakens and a WWII Life Raft-Radio.

A bearded man with a black sweatshirt, black hat and jeans, stands for a representation of hundreds of glass bottles, buoys and labels in his homemade Beachcombing Museum
A poison of a kinetic, rotating installation on a pole with numerous plastic buoys and fishing doters hanging on it
A short documentary that shows a man in a black hat and jeans, wears a backpack and holds a walking stick, while he over a gigantic driftwood logs to look at a large yellow buoy that the onshore has been rinsed
A still from a short documentary about a beachcomber in Washington, with a high column with plastic buoys from a pile on the lawn

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