DCC Update: October 2010

Update: October 2010 The strong south westerlies that marked September carried on into October, although in the latter half of the month t...

y2 = 4ax

Haven't done a post involving skateboarding or mathematics in a while, so here you go. I'm off to surf the quad in one of those tiny...

Surfing Around The World

Somewhere... ...North Island NZ (and I left this place why again?)... ...West Island, NZ... ...some very fine style in the UK (please note e...

Twinnies via Wegener and Beck

Jeff Beck goes hi-tech and lofi at the same time. Jon Wegener's Handiwork Ah, surfboard pictures- I love 'em. Since we've had 3 ...

Jetty Island

Saturday afternoon I took the kayak up to Everett and paddled across to Jetty Island. In the summer, the City runs a ferry over to the isl...

Lost In The Ether

Mick Mackie riding one of his sidecut rocket fish, image Kidman from 'Lost In The Ether' Garth Dickinson with a Mackie sidecut fish,...

Simmons Style

I doubt that just a few years ago when John Elwell, Richard Kenvin and Joe Bauguess collaborated to re-envision the legendary small Simmons ...

Elwha Delta

This is a little out of order - I managed to skip over it when posting other entries last week. These shots go back about two weeks. The El...

Pioneer

I titled this post "Pioneer" since that's what the sign along the railroad calls it - and since Pioneer was the major operato...

Sequalitchew Creek

Sequalitchew Creek is trapped in a narrow ravine between the former Dupont munitions plant (now Northwest Landing, a large planned developme...

Yukon Harbor

The road was probably built on the back of the beach a century ago. Sea level is probably 20-25 cms higher since then, and the big house o...

Manchester

Boat ramps are notorious for acting like groins and for paving over viable beach habitat. It's hard to bury one's eggs in concrete...

Clam Bay

The beach on the northwest side of Clam Bay was once a spit with a lagoon tucked in behind. But the lagoon made a convenient dumping groun...