Tides and Trails

Wild salmon are so embattled right now I can't bring myself to fish for them. After I moved to the coast I put my fly-rod in storage....

My wife, Amy, texted me a picture of a mangled creature she came across when she was running at dawn on Crescent Beach. It looked like an...

How do you know you’re a beachcombing geek? When you stop to stare at a kelp holdfast on a beach for so long you arrive late to a...

Today a man hurried toward the Haystack Rock Awareness Program (HRAP) truck to tell us he'd "found a stingray." Maybe a bat ray? Or a...

I found this three-level limpet world adrift in the current, like a planet that had escaped its star. The larger limpet has smaller...

My latest favorite tidepool creatures: an isopod, a fish, and, wait for it . . . an arachnid. The red velvet mite has been adding vivid...