Beach Trash

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...

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Styrofoam filled dock washed up on beach

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...

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Felipe Bascope trash art piece

Now that’s creative advertising

These pieces were created for Surfrider Foundation by Phillipe Bascope of Saatchi and Saatchi. If only S&S didn’t also create ads for Pampers which, according to The Ocean Conservancy, take 450 years to...

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Shampoo Success!

Shampoo Success!

A few posts back I decided to find a way to shampoo without purchasing products in plastic bottles. This weekend, in Portland, I managed to find a bar of J.R. Ligget’s. I have...

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Memorial Day weekend

Memorial Day weekend

I’ve sailed away from Puget Sound for a holiday in Portland, Oregon. Though the water here is river rather than salt, Portlanders (Porlandians? Portlandites?) are very connected to their waterfronts. The Willamette, which...

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Withdrawl – from plastic and chemical dependency

Withdrawl – from plastic and chemical dependency

In my ongoing effort to stop buying plastic containers and chemical products I decided to first try an alternative shampoo and went searching on the web for solid bar types. On Grist I...

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Beach finds

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...

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