World Belly Board Champs

It's coming up, so here's a fine instructional video. Belly boards are your secret to always getting a fun ride no matter the condit...

Beach hunting after a strong coastal storm

With tropical storm Erika making its way to Florida, my inbox has been full of messages from people asking for post storm beach hunting tips...

Credit conscious consumers

If anything good came out of the Great Recession, it was the lesson—for consumers, at least—that debt can be a very unpleasant thing to have...

GDP stronger than expected

It's ironic that the stock market suffered a huge "correction" only days before the second revision to Q2 GDP growth came in s...

Thunder Mountain Lake

Upper Thunder Mountain Lake lies at roughly 6400', just east of the Cascade crest, and therefore drains towards Icicle Creek and Leavenw...

Chart updates II

Only two charts from yesterday merit updating today, one the result of a bounce in stock prices and a drop in fear, the other the result of ...

Quarry Beach

Tafoni weathering in sandstone There can't be many publicly accessible beaches on Salt Spring that I haven't visited at this point, ...

Yeo Point

Yeo Point itself is not a beach, but a rocky promontory at the north end of Ruckle Park on the southeastern corner of Saltspring Island. But...

St Mary Lake

This relatively small lake on Saltspring Island has neither the waves nor the sediment to form natural beaches and is fringed by reeds every...

Chart updates

Given the rather extraordinary volatility and nervousness of the market, I'm going to post updates of key charts as I'm able, with m...

summer into fall table setting

With the end of summer drawing near, I am bringing a little more orange and gold into my home.  A little pop of orange on the table can alwa...

Climbing an oil-slick China wall of worry

Falling oil prices and Chinese growth concerns have come together in perfect-storm fashion to send global financial markets into crisis mode...