 voice in my political opinion, oh we're live. Hello, hello everyone from the Petrified Forest National Park, one more time and right now we are in the Crystal Forest. Crystal Forest, what a beautiful place. Sam's bike today. No biking today. All right I'm gonna hand it over to Alex just so that I can take some footage for the full YouTube video and he's going to show you around. Talk about the process of petrification. That's why I'm speaking. And show you a bit around here. There you go. Alrighty, so first things first, you'll notice I have a pop collar and I'm sure you're asking yourself why is Alex doing that. Well, my neck's a little hot so I put it up to keep the sun off. Anyway, so behind me is a giant petrified log. It's effectively uh, it used to be a tree long time ago. They were saying like 220 million years ago, right? And these logs are, that's a beba. Petrified. But these logs are um, they're rock solid. I mean let me see if I can't get you down here. But like if I were to go touch this thing like, it's, it feels exactly like a rock and it split in that manner too over the years. Kind of like you would see like a rock fracture on a rock face. But what ends up happening with these is the volcanic eruption. Volcanic ash, right, goes out. And after that volcanic ash settles down, you would then actually have water combined, pick the silica up out of that water. And what ends up happening then is that silica rich water has the opportunity then to be absorbed by the tree. And then kind of like you would expect like an obsidian or another sort of volcanic rock like that. It's hard, right? And let's hope that my guesses there were not too far-fetched in terms of obsidian. But uh, yeah, that the absorption of that silica into the wood then at that point is what allowed it to petrify. And it becomes harder rock at that point. So it's really kind of interested to see that mixture of organic material with rock. You get to see a lot of interesting colors in the trees at that point when we're going by. Sometimes it's very difficult to picture in your head how this whole area. All right, better. I was trying to say sometimes it's very hard to picture how all of this area was actually a forest. But one of the signs when we started hiking, uh, you know, they had the picture of the whole forest. I was like, wow, that's really amazing. But anyway, so if you are here, Crystal Forest is a 0.8 mile loop paved comfortable to walk on and really fun to see all of the pieces of wood sprinkled around the park here. I think we've seen more wood per square foot here than anywhere else in the park. Everywhere else, man actually. That is true. So we started our visit to the park from the north entrance to the southern entrance. Today. And like Alex said, this is the area that is very dense with the petrified wood unlike the earlier viewpoints or hikes that we went on on the northern side. So I'm still hoping we might be able to see another stop while we're making our way south. But this area, if you are looking to see pieces of petrified wood, this is the area to be. This is the trail to be on. Shout out to our man, Fernando, who made it to our channel for some reason. We had a wonderful time chatting with you in the parking lot, but that's why we're staying at S5 for a few minutes. We met the park ranger here and he's been very kind, very helpful. We had a very meaningful and beautiful conversation to learn about the job, what it entails, and to learn a little bit more about the National Park too. Let me switch the camera to the other side to show you around. Yeah, some more, some more woods. I'd say it's not Sequoia, but the amount of history that's laying on the ground here is still quite impressive. More pieces over there. And what I'm gonna do... So we checked out some adobes. Forgive me for preempting you there. We checked out some adobes earlier. There were some like communities where there was a Navajo. No. I don't want to get the tribe wrong, but the people who lived in the area. Let's say that, but that they had like some community areas where they would build their houses on the outside and they had like a local forum on the inside. And this is when we were talking about the calabarocular. The structure right here looks kind of like a building frames. Yeah, it just looks like the frame. But look at this though. This looks like a bridge, but this is all wood. All of this line right here. This is wood. This is petrified wood. Wow, like you feel like you would drag your hands across it and you would get like a nasty splinter, right? But you don't. It's not. It's not splintered wood like that. It's hard as stone. And this actually looks really wood-like in color. Look at this too. Like I imagine this is a tree. This is this ain't a small tree either. It's a big tree. That's all of the crystals. And dark souls. What I'm gonna do, I was saying I'm gonna try to link in the description box to a very easy explanation of the whole petrification process that I watched before with national geographic kids. They have a youtube channel and it's really good. Obviously for kids they try to make the explanation very simplified. So if you guys want to learn more check that one out. I think for right now do you have anything else you want to add Alex? I don't know. I always run my collar up. Maybe I should do that. Okay, so we'll continue our walk and hope that you guys enjoy these spontaneous lives. I was telling Alex that I kind of abusing them for right now. I've been doing a lot of lives but I feel like sometimes with raw beautiful moments like this there's not a better way to share. And there we go. Here are some more petrified logs. They look like sliced dehydrated bananas. Like my dehydrate. We should call, we should brand our our dehydrated bananas now. Petrified. Petrified. Look at the crystals. Holy cow that really shows you what it looks like. Look at all of the crystals. This one is a good example. This one's a great example to show. Okay well I hope that you guys enjoyed this little live and we will talk to you later. Take care. Bye.