Baby Island – The Life and Times of a Small Place
Whidbey Islander Paul Shapiro has created a contemplative piece about Baby Island – a very small place.
BABY ISLAND The Life And Times Of A Small Place from Paul Shapiro on Vimeo.
Whidbey Islander Paul Shapiro has created a contemplative piece about Baby Island – a very small place.
BABY ISLAND The Life And Times Of A Small Place from Paul Shapiro on Vimeo.
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…
Schooner Adventuress design and specifications Adventuress is a beautiful vessel, long and sleek and ship shape. For detail mongers, she’s a Gaff Topsail Two-masted Schooner measuring 133 feet from the tip of her bowsprit to the up tilted crown of her stern … for which there is probably a more accurate and saltier term. Her…
What do you bring home from the beach? Driftwood is lovely to sit on at the beach, but it isn’t something I haul home to install in my living spaces. My marine decor items are smaller. a matched set of rocks some antique bottles found while scuba diving, a bronze compass rose, the points of…
Two Whidbey Island landmarks are finalists in what local literary icon Knute Berger has called the American Idol version of historic preservation, the Million-Dollar Preservation Grant Competition. The Ferry House, at Ebey’s landing and the Bowman Bay Kitchen Shelter (technically on Fidalgo Island) at Deception Pass State Park are two of 25 area structures selected…
On a sunny afternoon in mid-December the woods at South Whidbey State Park – where huge, old growth firs allow only filtered light to reach the forest floor – were chilly and damp. But beyond the trees I could see that the beach, on this almost Christmas day, was merry and bright. On a sunny…
First, accept sand. Inhale the salt smell of drying seaweed carried on the wind that whips your hair into fantastic styles. Let the waves mesmerize you and fool your eye into expecting motion from things that stand still. Hear the slip of small waves against the shore. Watch others do the same. Follow, with your…