Lichen, algae and rust color the boards of a weathered dock

Water Photo of the Week: The Colors of a Weathered Dock

Algae, lichen and rust color the soft gray boards of a weathered dock.

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blogger's life

The blogger’s life

isn’t all bare feet and sunshine. Moments after taking this pic I was driving south in a panic trying to make the last showing of Beneath the Salish Sea. What a fabulous film....

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Beneath the Salish Sea

Want to know what’s Beneath the Salish Sea?

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...

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Wading off into the dark

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...

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There is good news too, but some of it’s pretty muddy

There is good news too, but some of it’s pretty muddy

Actually there’s probably more good than bad news in the world, but as we all know, the good news doesn’t capturing our attention in quite the same way. Taking advantage of the very...

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It’s inventory time

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...

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