Showboat Beach

For years, the old Showboat Theater floated along Portage Bay, in the midst of the oceanography and fisheries buildings, but by the 1990s, I...

Golden Gardens

Two posts back, at Lake Quinault, I noted that beaches are easy to make.  But that doesn't mean that they are simple, that they are all ...

West Seattle

This winter's highest tide was supposed to arrive at dawn last Sunday morning, but the clear cold weather came with high pressure and th...

Pritchard Beach

Compared to the very recent pocket beaches in the previous post, this is an older beach trapped in a natural north-facing cove.  I have no i...

Martha Washington Park

This park is one of many places around Lake Washington where small beaches have been carved into the shoreline during the past decade. The i...

West Point

At a relatively high tide, walking the beach at West Point below Discovery Park one might be struck by the relief - a steep gravel beach and...

Discovery Park

The south side of Discovery Park shares the same deep-seated landslide complex that characterizes most of the southwest shore of Magnolia - ...

Four Mile Rock

Four nautical miles northwest of Yesler's Wharf, a large glacial boulder sits on the beach with a navigation marker and a large bald eag...

Magnolia Bluff

Magnolia Bluff is both some of Seattle's premier real estate and one of Puget Sound's best known deep-seated landslide complexes.  T...

Blue Ridge

Seattle's Blue Ridge neighborhood lies on the hills that rise from the beach north of Ballard.  The community even has its own private b...

Southwest Seattle

This post encompasses a longer stretch of shoreline already addressed in the two previous posts and is mainly just an excuse to show the var...