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...

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...

This was pretty much the best possible place (and conditions) to end a field trip on my last day in the field as a professional! The con...

Seattle has been replacing its downtown seawall over the past couple of years. The new one provides better habitat - better, at least, th...

The pictures in this post are from just a little farther north than those in the previous post, since Irondale and Chimacum are just di...

Irondale and Chimacum are the southern and northern halves of the same beach, at least as I see it, and as they have before, they will...

If you're going to build a town on the water, it makes sense to find a piece of ground that's low enough to allow easy access to...

The low shoreline of Mutiny Bay once consisted of a complex series of wetlands, tidal inlets, and northerly-directed sand spits. But the...

A series of photos illustrating the role of overwash in shaping barrier beaches is a standard element in many of my beach talks and one ...

A week and half ago, I got to spend two days at Fort Worden, a (very) little of which actually got spent on the beach. This is a familia...

There is a neat little beach hidden at the bottom of Teekalet Bluff in Port Gamble. People often stop to take in the view from the top, ...

Here's a nice example of a small beach project that almost no one knows about. It's an artificial gravel beach at a hard-to-find...