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 [...]
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A beach, a dock and the two faces of styrofoam
I’ve just returned from the scene of a conundrum. A few days ago a Whidbey visitor left a comment here on Tidal Life about a section of dock that had floated up and lodged on a local beach. They asked for my help finding the correct agency to remove it. While I was flattered to [...]
Beach finds
Driftwood is lovely to sit on at the beach, but it isn’t something I haul home. My marine decor items are limited to a matched set of rocks,some antique bottles found while scuba diving,and a bronze compass rose, the points of which are bent due to my kids having found it at the height of [...]
