Diver, cinematographer, and marine biologist Florian Graner will show us this coming Sunday. Florian lives right here on Holmes Harbor. but he dives and films all over the world and has worked on films such as The Blue Planet. His new film, Beneath the Salish Sea opens with the amazing variety of life just off [...]
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Wading off into the dark
It’s time for the Beach Watchers Eelgrass Monitors to collect winter samples. The work isn’t hard, but the night is dark and cold and there’s an awful lot of knee deep water to wade through, so project lead Jan Holmes has wisely rounded up a couple of helpers (her husband, Steve and me) to keep [...]
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 [...]
