Gravel Beach

Puget Sound Beaches ... not really just gravel, but sand, broken shell, and occasionally a boulder the size of a large truck.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

Seattle

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The eastern shore of Elliott Bay was once a gravel beach with a steep bluff gradually rising from south to north, perhaps 80-100' high i...

Cape George

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Cape George is a large residential development west of Port Townsend. It faces northwest across the mouth of Discovery Bay, looking out ov...

Port Hadlock

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Small, sheltered beaches often seem much more complicated than big, high energy ones. High energy ocean beaches with abundant sediment are...
Monday, May 09, 2011

Craft Island

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As the Skagit Delta has expanded into Puget Sound, it has gradually engulfed the small islands that once must have dotted the northern port...

Klootchman Rock

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This big hunk of metamorphic rock sits on the beach below Scenic Heights, somewhere between Penn Cove and Oak Harbor. I think it can safel...

Blowers Bluff

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I need to explore this beach with a better geologist along - one who really understands the complex stratigraphy and sedimentary tales expo...

Monroe's Landing

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I suppose it is the interplay of easterly and westerly wave action that results in accretion here inside the northeastern corner of Penn Cov...

Termination Point

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The big landslides at Termination Point used to feed the beaches northeastward towards Shine Tidelands and Bywater Bay , but the embankme...

Howarth Park

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The railroad and the high bluffs make access to the beach between Seattle and Everett a tricky proposition, but there are places where strea...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Sekiu

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This unusual beach is located just north around the corner from Sekiu. The beach gives way to a rocky platform in both directions, but the...
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