December 12, 2012 – King Tide
Mussels on King Tide wrack
Surfed in on the last high tide
Northern fulmar
Small side-lugged float
San Pellegrino, temporarily at rest
Fat gaper, Tresus capax
Too common
Mixed wood in the wrack line
Balancing act
Missing this?
Salmon: care to guess species?
Red phalarope
Size 6
High tide tossed up a drifting hard hat
Salp, Thetys vagina
December 6, 2012
Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Northern fulmar
Look at all those gull tracks
Lost painter’s show
November 26, 2012
October 18, 2012
Fetch
Nike
Western grebe
October 14, 2012
Strong south wind blows the drift line clean
California mussel Mytilus californianus
Gulls hunker down; face into a stiff south wind
October 6, 2012
August 19, 2012
Fish crate
Drift Turkish towel, sea lettuce, and a little kelp
Pigeon guillemot, adult
Soft lure
August 5, 2012
July 5, 2012
June 15, 2012
June 3, 2012
May 5, 2012
Big styrofoam float’s been at sea a while
A new arrival
Shapes indicate function
Hitchhikers
Quiz: local or international?
Small 2-lugged trawl float
Small side-lugged float with kanji
Up in the wrack line, a perch for my gear
A long way from home
No nectar, no message
Common 2-lugged float
An uncommon float color on my home beaches
Lugs on opposite ends
Fishes well down to 80 meters?
April 20, 2012
March 25, 2012
March 3, 2012
Kelpfish?
Float
Brandt’s cormorant
February 20, 2012
Tufted puffin
Rhinoceros auklet
Funnel, bull kelp stipe
Nuttall’s cockle
Pacific razor clam
Giant kelp
Mixed drift line
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