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.
Neither snow nor rain will stay forester Elliott Menashe from heading out into the woods. Maybe gloom of night will keep him inside, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Certainly not a Whidbey Island ice storm. Elliott snapped this picture of some pretty impressive icicles hanging above a creek on one of the coldest days of…
Doesn’t that sound like a great title for a children’s book? Now to figure out what the story is. Today Nameless is floating in a sea of orange, a bloom of algae called noctiluca scintillans. This is one of the species that earlier this month lighted up the night with bio-luminescence – also known as…
I received the following email from The Seagrass Forum about the Blue Climate initiative: Dear Colleagues (seagrass forum), Please sign-on to our Marine Science / Conservation & Climate Change Letters. The purpose of these letters, addressed to President Obama and the U.S. Senate, is to advance tropical marine conservation as part of the solution to…
Prints of Help Japan, a beautiful, arresting image were available from SignalNoise but quickly sold out. Perhaps there will be more. More people want to help. More people want this elegant reminder. There’s another red symbol of help. Donate to the Red Cross.
I’ve just returned from the scene of a conundrum — Styrofoam in the marine environment. A few days ago a Whidbey visitor left a comment here on Tidal Life to tell me that a section of dock had floated up and lodged on a local beach. They asked for my help finding the correct agency…
This is the second in what is now the Tidal Life Water People Series. We might also call it the Tidal Life Obsessive of the Month. I’ve got a boatload of such folk to introduce you to. (Memo to Archie Grand: Suggestion for another new notebook – Water People I’ve Met and Liked.) Beach Watcher, Whale…