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The Ferry Ride Just the ferry ride alone is worth the price of a ticket to Friday Harbor, even if you turn around and come right back home. We stayed though – a whole two nights – enough time to visit all our old favorite San Juan Island spots. Friday Harbor Friday Harbor was comfortably…
You’re Paying to Kill the Ocean
From Scientific American Observations: Overfishing and pollution have pushed life in the high seas to the brink of collapse, according to a new report from the Global Ocean Commission. “The oceans are a failed state,” David Miliband, co-chair of the commission, told Reuters. … The report warns that a combination of technology and big fuel…
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 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 crashing waves, and steady breezes of winter move more than grains of sand and your whipping hair around. They also move…
Puget Sound and Chesapeake Bay – lets try this
June-September ban on certain fertilizers benefits waterways (Sarasota, FL, USA) 31 May 2009, Sarasota Herald-Tribune What season starts tomorrow? Hurricane season, of course. Its arrival will be appropriately accompanied by media coverage, predictions and government warnings. But what other season begins tomorrow, at least in Sarasota and Charlotte counties? It’s “don’t fertilize with nitrogen and…
The Art of Anchoring
There are certain guidelines for securely anchoring a boat for the night, but try as you might, sometimes things just don’t work out. When they don’t, it helps to get good pictures. Attend to the Tide Enroute from our Fort Lauderdale vacation back to Beaufort SC, we were pushing hard to make as many miles…
