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Eelgrass in the sun
The eelgrass is truly back. This is the eelgrass meadow that caused all the commotion a few years ago by completely disappearing. Last year it was still sparse. This year it’s back, healthy eelgrass, lush and beautiful and undulating beguilingly in the sunshine.
Electric waves and chopped fish
It’s funny the way the press talks. Always with the negative spin. How often do you see a headline that says funding for or profit from x is up? (Leaving aside for now stories about oil companies.) While the actual funding or profit might be greater than previously, the headline will say, “lower than projected.”…
Salmon
The story from Alaska is the King salmon run didn’t show up this season. I’ve always been amazed that biology has never sunk in with the general public and the agencies that try to keep the general public happy. If you kill fish before they can spawn they will not spawn, and baby fish will…
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…
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…
Clouds Over Two Islands
As I was driving home from work tonight a strand of frothy cloud stretched the length of Whidbey Island. At either end it joined into a massive cloud bank. Watching these clouds I flashed back to another atmospheric display over Stonehenge last month. A rainstorm had chased us all the way from Montacute to Stonehenge….
