How many Northwesterners would like to be doing this right now? Raise your mittens! Photo of boys playing in Maui surf by Mari Hotchkiss.
Tag Archives: Ocean
Mother Nature Says: Time to clean up your room, but it’s okay if it’s fun
It’s winter, not the high season for northern beaches But the winter beach is beautiful and interesting. The slope is steeper, the colors are different. The sharp wind wakes you up. The high tides (King Tides, these days), crashing waves, and steady breezes of winter move more than grains of sand and your whipping hair [...]
PSA: Where to get the elusive Jack O’Neill biography
Thanks to Jack O’Neil we can all play in the ocean without the hypothermia. Now we can all read the story of how the wetsuit got invented – if we can get our hands on the book! Whidbey rumor has it that It’s Always Summer on the Inside, Drew Kampion’s biography of Jack O’Neil has [...]
World Oceans Day: One more excuse to celebrate the sea
It’s World Oceans Day! All I can muster right now is a quick link. My computer is behaving badly. I’m spending far too much time waiting for processes to finish, shutting and restarting programs, rebooting. Uploading a photo is painful. Maintenance time. Until I get to the bottom of this all I’ve got for World [...]
… in my dreams …
A blog becomes a part of you. Last night I dreamed about going to the ocean and seeing an event. Typically dreamlike, the meaning of this one evaporated by morning, so I don’t remember what the event was, just that there were a hundreds of people there and it was very exciting and it had [...]
