Gravel Beach

Birch Bay is a complicated story of beaches and coastal history and would take longer to tell clearly than I have time tonight. Maybe anoth...

Tongue Point is the northern tip of Semiahmoo Spit - at least that's the easiest way for me to distinguish the two somewhat overlapping ...

What better location for a Canadian-U.S. workshop on sea level rise than a large resort built on the tip of a spit within a stone's thro...

I dropped the guys off at the South Park playfield for their Ultimate game on Saturday afternoon and then headed for the river (there are a ...

Onamac is one of several similar landforms along the west shore of Camano Island - and such a common type on Puget Sound that I suppose we r...

In previous years, we've brought this class to Kala Point, but this year we shifted things around and headed to Marrowstone Island and F...

Of the class of 40 or so people here to learn about climate change, only half a dozen or so probably wandered down the 200 yards to the over...

The Port of Olympia sits on a promontory of fill at the southern end of Budd Inlet, at the mouth of the Deschutes River. Its northern shor...

I probably should have titled this post "Capitol Lake," just to avoid controversy, but after all, it is the mouth of the Deschutes...

The shoreline runs almost east-west between Elliott Point (Mukilteo) and Everett and the result is beaches with exposure from the north, bu...