DCC Update - April 2009

The City Council's applications for retrospective consents for the erosion control work at Ocean Beach have been scheduled for hearing b...

Brackett's Landing North

In the late 1980s, Edmonds fixed up this little pocket beach north of the ferry terminal. With Wolf Bauer's guidance, they improved th...

Edmonds

Edmonds was once a large barrier beach built across the western side of a much larger Union Marsh, but a history of saw mills, railroads, t...

Kitsap Bluffs

The northern Kitsap Peninsula is a reminder of the diversity of Puget Sound's coastline. Most of the shore consists of bluffs built of ...

DCC tackles beach erosion

Otago Daily Times By David Loughrey on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 Accepting the eventual inundation of Kettle Park and a "managed retreat...

Yellow Bluff

These impressive bluffs on the southwestern shore of Guemes are readily seen from the San Juan Island ferry. The abundant oxidation of the ...

Demopolis Marsh

I've long admired this long barrier on the southern shore of Guemes and its large freshwater marsh from afar, but this was the first tim...

Clark Point

I lashed my bike to a tree at Young's Park on the east side and walked around Clark Point over to West Beach. This beachwalk offers grea...

Guemes Island

I spent Saturday exploring Guemes by bicycle - and foot. For a small island, it has a wonderful diversity of shoreline and some great beach...

Deer Harbor

The west side of Deer Harbor on Orcas Island is rocky, but the east side collects sandy sediment transported north along the shoreline from ...

English Camp

English Camp is located on the shores of Garrison Bay, near Roche Harbor on San Juan Island. It was established in the 1860s during efforts...

Nisqually Delta

The Nisqually Delta might have become a deep-water industrial port had it not been for a groundswell of environmental concern in the 1970s. ...

Maxwelton

Mackie Park is having a bit of a crisis. A new spit forming updrift (south) and offshore of the current beach, has now extended past the en...

Glendale Creek

I was in Nashville, checking the news, when I learned of the Whidbey "mudslide" - something related to a failing beaver dam and th...