DCC Update - March 2009

There has been good progress with the various studies required before a long term plan for Ocean Beach can be developed. Many of these studi...

Birch Bay

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

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

Semiahmoo

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...

Duwamish River

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 ...

Beach consent sought

Otago Daily Times By Chris Morris on Tue, 17 Mar 2009 The Dunedin City Council has applied for retrospective resource consent ...

Onamac Point

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...

Marrowstone Point

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...

DCC Required surveys and assessments

The Council will be carrying out the following surveys and assessments in order to gather as much background information and data as possibl...

Bayview

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...

North Point

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...

Deschutes Estuary

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

Port Gardiner

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

Larrabee State Park

The steep rocky coastline along Chuckanut Drive is built of 50-million year sandstone. It contains beautiful tropical fossils since it use...

Clayton Beach

Clayton Beach is at the southern end of Larrabee State Park, a 10-minute walk down the old interurban line, which headed "out to sea&qu...

Rock Point

Before it became Taylor Shellfish, this little point was the base for Rock Point Oysters. To get down here you follow the Taylor sign at th...

Skagit Delta

Little Mountain , just southeast of Mount Vernon, provides another great overview of the Skagit Flats. The Skagit flows through Mount Verno...

Samish Bay

Two posts from high points above the greater Skagit Delta. This one is from the Samish Overlook above Chuckanut Drive, which provides spec...

Big Lake

Big Lake is one of dozens of medium size lakes scattered across the Puget Lowland. Like most of them, it was probably once lined with thick...