Tidal Life

“Great God and Little Starfish!” “Blistering Blue Barnacles!” Mollusks and crustaceans are good for epithets.

There’s no better place to wake up than on the beach at the Sea of Cortez. North of La Paz Baja, Mexico.

During the various stages of keel repair, colorful materials come to the surface.

On a winter afternoon, the colors of rock, sand, sea and sky blend together at the West End Breakwater Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Low tide at dawn provides a picture worth painting for residents of the art colony at Rocky Neck Gloucester, Massachusetts

At season’s end, mushroom shaped mooring anchors are stored ashore at Bare Cove Marina Hingham, Massachusetts

A bald eagle keeps a wary eye on the beach while eating his catch at Holmes Harbor Freeland, Washington.

The River Strule flows swiftly under picturesque Bells Bridge in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

A bevy of swans preens on the bank of the Round Pond at Kensington Gardens, London.

A shipyard collection of propellers is clustered under the bow of the schooner Highlander Sea as she sits on the ways at Gloucester, Massachusetts