Headlines today coupled the intriguing phrase “King Tide” with Puget Sound. Having lived on the shore of the Sound my entire life, I thought I knew most of the terminology about this particular marine environment. But I’d never heard of a king tide. Perhaps it was a misprint – could be the writer meant spring [...]
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James Bond Villain Moves to Puget Sound
Looks like a new James Bond film may be coming soon. A structure reminiscent of the domicile of a Bond arch nemesis has just arrived in Puget Sound. No news yet on when filming will start, or whether they’re looking for extras among the moss and algae covered local population. Of course this is actually [...]
All Will Be Well
You know how sometimes you can just be going along, doing what you do, because you have to, not too engaged with the work and only waiting for 5:00 to come around? It’s been one of those days. I’ve been doing maintenance on websites, finding bugs and zapping them, updating bits and pieces of text. [...]
Need to Go – Sailing on Adventuress, Puget Sound’s seagoing National Historic Landmark – Part 1
This spring Partners in Preservation aimed a promise of one million dollars at the Seattle area, with a competition for grants to restore, preserve and maintain historic structures in the Puget Sound region. When the list of candidates came out, Whidbey Islanders rallied around a favorite Coupeville landmark, the Ferry House, which stands on the [...]
It’s Puget Sound that has a wild side
There’s a new book out from Harbor WildWatch. I’ve only seen Puget Sound’s Wildside on the organization’s wildly impressive website but I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy. By the look of all they’ve got going on these people are highly professional about their program. The book appears to be equally well [...]
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 films such as The Blue Planet. His new film, Beneath the Salish Sea opens with the amazing variety of life just off [...]
Clean up money allocated by Congress
The Puget Sound cleanup effort will get double the funding this coming year. Let’s make it effective and efficient.
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 [...]
Mother’s Day gifts
Wildlife on the waterfront this morning 1 loon 2 otters 2 tiny, unidentified ducks 2 towhees, one north, one south doing a call and response 1 glaucous winged gull infinte little brown jobs flitting about 1 flock of pigeons cooing under the neighbor’s dock – imaginary sound of brakes screeching – I experience a moment’s [...]
Puget Sound is calling artists
The seashore has always called to artists, inspiring driftwood sculptures on the beach, Goldsworthy-like stacks of flat rocks, amateur photographyand paintings by Manet, Wyeth, Sargent. Now People for Puget Sound and Laconner’s Seaside Gallery are teaming up to showcase local artists works about Puget Sound in the I Love Puget Sound Art Contest. As a [...]
