Barnum Point

Thousands of years of wave action has carved off the southeasterly face of this glacial ridge, creating a beautiful high bluff. A thick till...

Driftwood Shores

The spit extends across the mouth of Triangle Cove and is lined with homes and, of course, driftwood. They don't call it Driftwood Shore...

Driftwood Heights

I think this is the appropriate name for this stretch of shoreline along East Camano and Lehman Drives, north of Cavalero Beach and south of...

Cama Beach

  Cama Beach appeared on these pages frequently last year and probably will again this year.  These are from a brief foray in mid-January fo...

Camano Island State Park

The best use for a big deep-seated landslide on Puget Sound is probably a forest.  The next best use may be a relatively low-intensity publi...

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...

Livingston Bay

This log-choked salt marsh originally formed behind a tenuous spit, but sometime last century, a dike was built along the general line of th...

Cama Beach

There is a small perennial stream at the south end of Cama Beach.  It emerges from a gully and flows across the beach.  Some years it just p...

Cama Beach

I think there will be two posts from this morning's visit to Cama Beach, one on the landslide and one on the stream south of the resort....

Camano Head

Camano Head lies at the southeastern tip of Camano Island and rises more than 300' from the beach.  Not unlike Possession Head at the so...