Gravel Beach

I'm playing catch up, so this post dates back to late May. I posted from here a few years ago and mentioned wanting to see how ...

I've fallen way behind - a week in August on Salt Spring and another week driving back and forth from Minnesota in September resul...

A new beach (several, actually) and a very small pocket estuary. An amazing contrast to the remains of the old Custom Plywood m...

March's Point, or March Point? Either way, it's the peninsula that forms the eastern shoreline of Fidalgo Bay and is home to oi...

There's a new beach taking shape in Anacortes at the old Custom Plywood site.  The lumber mill closed down a long time ago and ...

This is a revisit to the site of a small-scale nourishment project that was done several years ago on the north side of Weaverling Spi...

This large multi-unit residential project was proposed several years ago, but was delayed by the economy.  Now things are underway a...

Ship Harbor is a north-facing cove just east of the Anacortes Ferry Terminal. It's a swash-aligned barrier beach and marsh with a long...

For decades, this beach on the north side of Weaverling Spit has been eroding back into the fill that was placed around the original railro...

This little point in southern Fidalgo Bay is a little hard to decipher, but I suspect it is basically a rocky island separated from the rest...

I had a few minutes while waiting for the ferry early this morning and a few more after it got back in at the end of the day to walk down to...

Building ON the beach. Literally (or littorally?). This style of development is, fortunately, pretty rare on the Sound once you get away fr...

This site at the south end of Anacortes industrial waterfront reminds me of Dickman Mill in Tacoma before it was cleaned up. You can still...

This was once Flounder Bay, southwest of Anacortes. It is now Skyline Marina and the surrounding community (click on the title of the post t...