PENINSULA DAILY NEWS
FORKS — John G. Anderson knows more about what is in the sea than most people and has tons of evidence to prove it.
Anderson’s collection includes about 1,000 glass floats, hundreds of baseball hats, bottles, walking sticks, crab pots, whale bones and thousands of foam and plastic floats he has collected during his 27 years of beachcombing.
“Most people call it junk,” he said. “I call it treasure.”
His treasures are from as far away as Japan, Russia and Norway. Some date back to the Ice Age.
One of his most prized items is a portion of a mammoth tooth he found on a beach near Mosquito Creek, just north of the Hoh River, in the late-1980s.
“At first I wasn’t sure what it was, but I packed it out.” he said. “I was pretty excited when I found out it was a mammoth tooth.”
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The rest of the story appears in the Sunday Peninsula Daily News.
