Gravel Beach

January 1st, 2020. New Year's Day. The sun came out. I was already in Ballard and somewhat impulsively decided to go to the beach. I...

Some pictures of First Beach on English Bay in Vancouver from a gray day a couple of weeks ago. I've posted many times from here bef...

I generally would not post a beach that I hadn't actually visited, but I really wanted to work this one in somehow. Everything I kno...

Sidney is located a little north of Victoria on Vancouver Island's Saanich Peninsula. The waterfront looks like it's been filled...

Ediz Hook is the long spit that extends east into the Strait of Juan de Fuca to create Port Angeles Harbor. It's always a neat contr...

This beach on the northwest side of Whidbey Island, just outside of Deception Pass, isn't quite on the open ocean, but it still made a...

The beaches on Yellowstone Lake have always fascinated me. They are built of mixed sand and gravel and come in a combination of eroding bl...

There are beaches up and down Chicago's long shoreline - including some great lakefront parks south of the city, such as at 63rd Str...

Oak Street Beach, like all of Chicago's beaches, was created from scratch in one of many appropriately-oriented (to north wind and wav...

Wind, and therefore waves, blowing down Lake Michigan (on both sides), results in southward sediment transport and the accumulation of s...