The following is a guest post. The author is my past self. In many ways this essay was the first Tidal Life post, though years passed between writing it and beginning to publish this blog. I share it now because in it I wrote about my hope for the future – and the future has [...]
Tag Archives: Intertidal zone
Invasion of the King Tide
Headlines today coupled the intriguing phrase “King Tide” with Puget Sound. Having lived on the shore of the Sound my entire life, I thought I knew most of the terminology about this particular marine environment. But I’d never heard of a king tide. Perhaps it was a misprint – could be the writer meant spring [...]
It’s inventory time
Once each year, volunteers deploy onto thirty-five Island County beaches for the annual Intertidal Monitoring. Yesterday was the day for the beach I help on. The monitoring program is 14 years old. It originally sprang from concerns publicized after the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Before I go on, I have to say that instituting the [...]
