Gravel Beach

Hammersley Inlet seems more like a big river than it does a remote arm of the Pacific Ocean. It is narrow and runs east-west, which togeth...

Three months without a post! I need a bumper sticker that says "a bad day at the beach is still better than a good day of meetings...

Saturday afternoon I took the kayak up to Everett and paddled across to Jetty Island. In the summer, the City runs a ferry over to the isl...

This is a little out of order - I managed to skip over it when posting other entries last week. These shots go back about two weeks. The El...

I titled this post "Pioneer" since that's what the sign along the railroad calls it - and since Pioneer was the major operato...

Sequalitchew Creek is trapped in a narrow ravine between the former Dupont munitions plant (now Northwest Landing, a large planned developme...

The road was probably built on the back of the beach a century ago. Sea level is probably 20-25 cms higher since then, and the big house o...

Boat ramps are notorious for acting like groins and for paving over viable beach habitat. It's hard to bury one's eggs in concrete...

The beach on the northwest side of Clam Bay was once a spit with a lagoon tucked in behind. But the lagoon made a convenient dumping groun...

Twanoh State Park is perched on the delta of Twanoh Creek, along the south shore of Hood Canal. The shoreline of this part of Hood Canal (n...