Here’s a brief look back at theoutershores’ fifth year. I wrote 27 short posts and uploaded my share of Oregon coast images. I added new photos and updated most theoutershores’ pages, like the ones on reds and browns, and opened up new pages on sponges, sea anemones, and jellies. Here, I highlight the three most viewed posts I wrote in 2017, and show off a few of my favorite photos from the year.
A selection of photos from 2017 posts:
Henry the Fish, Washed Ashore’s Flagship, May 2016 | Bandon, OR
Lottia digitalis (center) and the barnacles upon which it is perched both love a vertical face and pounding surf
Security has its limits – pinching claw of Oedignathus inermis, abandoned on the reef
Hemigrapsus nudus, wandering out on the sand
Look for a woody stipe with Y-branches
Corallines and chitons layer the lower intertidal
Cup and Saucer, Constantinea simplex
Up on the foredune, beachgrass, Ammophila
Ligia pallasii on a vertical face | morning in the rocky supralittoral
Here’s to promising upwellings in the year ahead.
theoutershores 
Thank you Steve for this lovely recapture of where your 2017 interests were focused. After I have only recently discovered ‘you’ for reason of learning more about millions (!!) of Pyrosomes that are still (since June) washing up on incoming tides near the base of North Coast’s Neahkahnie Mountain (Manzanita) I was most assuredly not disappointed by your glorious photos and description of same. And in thinking you won’t mind as I appreciatively ‘pay it forward’ I will be sharing this collage with my circle far and wide…while also anticipating whatever the fascinating “upwellings” of a new year. May blessings of robust health and ever enduring curiosity be yours!
Thank you so much! It’s kind of you to take the time to mention it. Your note just made me realize I’ve never been to the base of Neahkahnie before. Maybe 2018 is my year.
Happy New Years Steve! Can’t wait for more of your photos of the Shore! Teresa
Thanks Teresa. We have some good high tides coming up, so I’ll be out there. Happy New Years to you too!
Stunning. They are like works of art!
Thank you!
What a great way to begin 2018. Thanks for this set of stunning images – I hadn’t seen all of them, but new to me or not, they’re all so well worth seeing. Looking forward to all your posts this year!