DCC Update - February 2009

The Council is applying for consents from both its own Planning Department and from the Otago Regional Council for erosion protection works ...

Ship Harbor

I had a few minutes while waiting for the ferry early this morning and a few more after it got back in at the end of the day to walk down to...

Seahurst Creek

I'm not sure what this creek is really called, but given that it ends in Seahurst Park and has no other obvious name that I am aware of,...

Seahurst Park

In the last few years, the south beach at Seahurst has become the poster child of "restored" beaches on Puget Sound. And maybe fo...

Eagle Landing

I walked here along the beach from Seahurst Park early this morning, figuring it was simply wrong to spend all day in a meeting near the bea...

Healing Sands

Time heals all wounds, nature is taking its' course in replenishing the sand at ocean beach.

Carkeek Park

Piper's Creek is one of Seattle's better know urban streams, draining three square miles of the city's northwest neighborhoods. ...

Whidbey Island

Beach Watchers' annual Sound Waters event (another 500+ people this year) has become a recurring excuse to come up to Whidbey and spend ...

Cam-Era Webcams by NIWA at Ocean Beach

Cam-Era – St Clair A Cam-Era – St Clair B Updated every 30 minutes. from NIWA website Ocean Beach is a 3 km long sandy bay in so...

North of Rocky Point

Clamber over the bedrock ledges at Rocky Point and you round the corner to find a broad expanse of brand new beach. This wasn't here i...

Rocky Point

Bedrock stays mostly out of sight under the thick Pleistocene sediments of Puget Sound, but as you walk north among the logs and small dunes...

Libbey Beach

Libbey Road ends with a quick drop down the bluff to a small park, perhaps built into a small glacial kettl e. And then there is another s...

Deer Creek

Early in the morning of January 15th, 1997, during a very wet winter, a huge chunk of the hillside just south of Deer Creek let go, collapsi...

Woodway

There's a beautiful little sandy beach where the shoreline returns to the railroad on the north side of Point Wells. Somehow a little p...

Point Wells

The weather was nice, so I continued my little Saturday afternoon walk north past Point Wells. The south side of the point is a big constru...

Richmond Beach

There are only a few places between Seattle and Everett where development has occurred waterward of the railroad tracks. This stretch of ho...

Saltwater Park

Most people simply call this shoreline park Richmond Beach, but technically, I guess it is the City of Shoreline's Saltwater Park. Not ...