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Sand Soccer in Virginia Beach
This week’s photo was not selected because it’s the pinnacle of waterscape art. The photographer wasn’t thinking showpiece so much as snapshot. She just wanted to capture the action of sand soccer. I’m very happy with it because it’s not from Whidbey Island. I can get a bit provincial. it shows a side of waterfront…

Marooned Sailor’s Lament
The following is a guest post. The author is my past self. In many ways this essay was the first Tidal Life post, though years passed between writing it and beginning to publish this blog. I share it now because in it I wrote about my hope for the future – and the future has…
No oysters on the half shell this week
With the Noctiluca bloom turning the water of the harbor orange to brown, and with the air perfumed with a salty reek I haven’t been tempted to dig clams or gather oysters. But in other spots around the Sound, where the water remains clear, I bet shellfish are on the menu. Here’s something I didn’t…

Feeling a little vulnerable
Preparing for catastrophe The wind took down another tree yesterday, a wild cherry from the little grove at the edge of the road. We came home to find it all cut up in firewood size lengths. Presumably by someone who needed to drive up the road. Hope nobody’s car got squished this time. As my…
Puget Sound just got a little bigger
A big week of changes for Puget Sound. An ambitious estuary restoration project has returned a section of the Nisqaully Delta that was diked off for farming to its original situation as part of Puget Sound. Which is itself now also officially part of the Salish Sea, (approved yesterday by the federal Board on Geographic…

UPDATE: Jan Holmes is the 2010 Cox Conserves Hero
Some very good news came in today that requires an update to a previous Tidal Life post. Jan Holmes, she of the tireless intertidal monitoring and eelgrass research, has been selected the 2010 Cox Conserves Hero for Western Washington. With the award comes a $5,000 donation to the non-profit of her choice. In a not too…