Cornet Bay

I'll try to keep this post relatively short. The recent work has only just been completed and I'm sure I'll be back often to che...

Keystone

I suspect this short stretch of beach just east of Keystone Harbor wins the award for most rapid, sustained, long term erosion rate on Puget...

Jeff Ho

Style all the way. Jason's board in the middle is the reminder that Jeff had said he might be doing a run of boards, but now he's...

Sandy bringing rare waterbirds?

By now it seems everyone from Florida to Maine is well aware of Hurricane Sandy. The system and its potential could make for a historic stor...

The True Meaning of Early Action Plans

The first of November is usually an exciting time with Thanksgiving right around the corner, and the rest of the holiday season not too far ...

Photo quiz - coastal waterbird?

This is a different sort of coastal waterbird - can you identify it? It is a species that utilizes many of the same habitats as our shorebir...

Ryan Burch & Derek Hynd & Mick Sowry & Jon Frank

Les Boreades/Ramifications/Electric Insects from Mick Sowry on Vimeo . Orawa from Mick Sowry on Vimeo . Absolute magic.

Ninelights Twin

The thing about having a lot of surfboards is you wind up surfing 2 or 3 of them in rotation most of the time, and for me the compsand mo...

Port Madison Bay

This is another site where an old bulkhead - or perhaps more accurately, several old bulkheads and a lot of rubble - have recently been remo...

Tracyton

The old concrete bulkhead at Anna Smith Park had stood for decades - well, most of it had stood for decades.  Some segments hadn't made ...

Cama Beach

Two weeks ago, I headed up to Cama Beach to give a Friday night talk.  I've always like Cama for its accessibility - 75 minutes or so, d...

Thoughts about Test-Optional Schools

People often say that death and taxes are the only two things we can be sure of in our lives. Well for high school students, you can add one...

International Shorebird Survey site forms

As we near the end of the International Shorebird Survey fall season I wanted to remind everyone of one final task we would ask that you com...

Gerry Wedd

As far as surfer/artists go, Gerry Wedd is a unique one. There's not that many guys riding Lazor Zap's that are internationally ...

Dead Common Gallinule

Last week Anthony Zemba, the Connecticut Audubon Society Director of Conservation Services, had an unfortunate discovery while conducting hi...

Ur-Simmons

John Mellor built this. It's a tidy little hoop finned bellyboard that predates the Bauguess mini Sims by a bit, and looks a lot like...

Wintering long-legged waders

Sometimes we tend to think of long-legged waders as spring and summer birds, just like the Piping Plover or Common Tern. In reality, that is...

Delivery #1

Couldn't feel better. That epic Mackie is out of my house and no longer a temptation. The run north was smooth as silk; easy drive t...

Chaos

Apologies for the lull in posting, it's been a bit of a week. There was a lot of work and bills to be paid and a diabolically bad sur...

Rat Island

The story behind Rat Island is a little ambiguous - I've heard slightly different versions.  But basically it goes like this.  Rat Islan...