Seafarer's Park

I've fallen way behind - a week in August on Salt Spring and another week driving back and forth from Minnesota in September resulted in...

Anacortes

A new beach (several, actually) and a very small pocket estuary. An amazing contrast to the remains of the old Custom Plywood mill. And prob...

March Point

March's Point, or March Point? Either way, it's the peninsula that forms the eastern shoreline of Fidalgo Bay and is home to oil ref...

Anacortes

There's a new beach taking shape in Anacortes at the old Custom Plywood site.  The lumber mill closed down a long time ago and later bur...

Weaverling Spit

This is a revisit to the site of a small-scale nourishment project that was done several years ago on the north side of Weaverling Spit (whi...

Skyline

This large multi-unit residential project was proposed several years ago, but was delayed by the economy.  Now things are underway again, wi...

Ship Harbor

Ship Harbor is a north-facing cove just east of the Anacortes Ferry Terminal. It's a swash-aligned barrier beach and marsh with a long...

Weaverling Spit

For decades, this beach on the north side of Weaverling Spit has been eroding back into the fill that was placed around the original railro...

Weaverling Spit

This little point in southern Fidalgo Bay is a little hard to decipher, but I suspect it is basically a rocky island separated from the rest...

Ship Harbor

I had a few minutes while waiting for the ferry early this morning and a few more after it got back in at the end of the day to walk down to...