Lund's Gulch

Meadowdale is one of the several small parks that sit on stream mouths along the railroad between Seattle and Everett. I like to call this s...

Mission Beach

Mission Beach, on the Tulalip Reservation, is a heavily developed stretch of shoreline, with homes built out over the beach and perched on t...

Oso

I've noted before that I try to keep this blog pretty focused - on beaches. Or maybe shorelines in general. Or maybe on geology. This is...

Edmonds

I have this peculiar little hang up. If you're going to spend all day in a meeting or a workshop about beach stuff, and it's held wi...

Woodway Beach

There's not much beach left below Woodway - the upscale bluff-top community just south of Edmonds.  Once upon a time, this would have be...

Howarth Park

The railroad and the high bluffs make access to the beach between Seattle and Everett a tricky proposition, but there are places where strea...

Jetty Island

Saturday afternoon I took the kayak up to Everett and paddled across to Jetty Island. In the summer, the City runs a ferry over to the isl...

Warm Beach

The Warm Beach Conference Center is perched on the bluff overlooking the north end of Port Susan and has great views out over the Stilligua...

Mission Beach

I’m sure this is a wonderful place to enjoy summer low tides – warm water rising over broad sandy flats – but the homes are all too close – ...

Spee-bi-dah

The Tulalip shoreline is a mix of good and bad. The small low-lying communities – mainly private inholdings -- are built on the beach, on ...

Hermosa Point

Tulalip Bay occupies a big bowl in the glacial landscape – but its rim is low enough on the southwestern side to let Puget Sound spill in (o...

Merrill and Ring Creek

Named after one of the region’s timber giants, this is one of many small streams that drain to the “Great Northern” shoreline between Seattl...