Planting a tree the hard way

We were at Homer this past weekend introducing our grandchildren to the joys of wading in a very cold ocean when we came across this tree embedded in sand and gravel on the Homer Spit, a five-mile-long sandbar connected to the mainland.

Homer does have a reputation for practical jokes, but this ones seems a bit better than others we've heard about. Almost everybody seeing this for the first time does a double take.