Seattle's Blue Ridge neighborhood lies on the hills that rise from the beach north of Ballard. The community even has its own private beach access, but Sunday's low tide (-3.6' MLLW, so one of the year's lowest) made this a much more public beach, with a lot of folks walking between Carkeek Park and Golden Gardens.
AERIAL VIEW
A couple of small streams - not sure what distinguishes a stream from a stormwater outfall in these urban areas - emerge from culverts beneath the tracks at the Blue Ridge access. The larger one takes a sharp, but brief, right hand turn, before turning again down the beach. I guess this suggests drift, or at least recent drift of the sandier material, is northward, although I think the larger pattern is the other way, since this area gets some shelter from the south.
The railroad dominates the upper beach - pretty much replaces it, actually - except for a narrow backshore right around the stream mouths. But the lower beach goes out forever, or so it seemed today, when low tide sort of merged into the gray day.
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