Gravel Beach

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 ...

Sea stacks, lots of big logs, a gravel beach, and a small spit across the mouth of Cedar Creek. And a wonderful forested slope rising up...

I guess I posted from Kalaloch in 2014 (same trip as Lake Quinault in the previous post), but that's not a good reason not to d...

A little beach on Lake Quinault, the product of a shoreline oriented to capture the westerly waves and just enough sediment to form a be...

Bombay Beach isn't really much of a beach anymore. Or a beach community. But for someone who collects beaches, it was well worth a...