Rocky Point

I can't think of another stretch of shoreline that's undergone such major changes in the last decade, except perhaps the site of the...

Forbes Point

Forbes and Maylor Points mark the southern end of the peninsula that separates Oak Harbor on the west from Crescent Harbor on the east. The ...

Possession

This small, unadvertised state park at the southern tip of Whidbey is a great place for an early morning walk on the beach below Possession ...

West Beach

I was up in Oak Harbor again for Sound Waters (Saturday, Feb 1st), which meant that I had a few hours in the afternoon to work my way down t...

Ala Spit

My visit to Whiffen Spit two weeks ago had me thinking a lot about Ala Spit, and since I was in the area for meetings and other site visits,...

Ledgewood

I was lucky to visit Ledgewood the afternoon of the big landslide back on March 27th, and then again briefly one week later.  But I hadn...

San de Fuca

A couple of small spits converge on a lagoon (two, actually) here at the northwestern corner of Penn Cove below the community of San de Fuca...

Cornet Bay

Last fall, WA State Parks, the NW Straits Foundation, the Island County Marine Resources Committee, and others collaborated to pull out the ...

Deception Pass

Much of Puget Sound is nothing but Pleistocene - with Vashon glacial deposits on the surface and older glacial and interglacial sediments pe...

Ledgewood Beach

For better and more up-to-date information on the geology of this landslide, see: DNR's Ear to the Ground:  Whidbey Island Coupeville La...