November 24, 2015
All the big wood in the wrack line got mobilized by a big spring tide
Plastic, some terrestrial plant material, and Cellophane tube worm casings, probably Spiochaetopterus costarum
Cellophane tube worm casings, probably Spiochaetopterus costarum
Sea palm, Postelsia palmaeformis
November 23, 2015
Cellophane tube worm casings, probably Spiochaetopterus costarum; Sitka spruce needles
Big Wrack
Balancing act
Wrecked commercial crab gear
Good-sized cobble dragged ashore on drift bull kelp
Bull kelp drift mass
Bull kelp holdfast
More cobble dragged ashore on bull kelp – holdfasts still attached
White layer is dead barnacles, smothered by accumulated summer sand
October 17, 2015
There’s a beach hopper party under and along this bull kelp stipe
An intertidal millipede?
Dropped off my gear while I got to know Alloniscus on the backshore
Beach hoppers make a living on beach beach cast algae. Their shows, little holes, outline the edges of this feather boa kelp
Lots of molted Emerita tests in the drift
Foredune stabilized by a Ammophila monoculture
October 3, 2015
Beach hopper, eelgrass
Beach hoppers rejoice – a drift line dominated by eelgrass, Zostera
Drift mass of fresh eelgrass, Zostera
Lot of of greedy ravens left those tracks
Wants a share of that elk
Larus tracks
Sea rocket, Cakile edentula
Backshore habitat of the the isopod, Alloniscus perconvexus
Alloniscus perconvexus track
Shy little Alloniscus perconvexus
A sloppy, fluffy mound is a reliable show for an Alloniscus perconvexus burrow
Raven tracks
September 6, 2015
Sun-bleached by-the-wind sailor
Taking the beach
This Fucus has been adrift
Barnacle molts
Driftline full of barnacle and juvenile mole crab molts
Common murre
Excavating Nephtys
Larval stage, Thinopinus pictus, “see ya”
Moon jelly
Chondrophore, Tresus capax
This barnacle looks oversized on such a small pebble
Fall is the season for beach cast algae
Megalorchestia columbiana, perhaps?
Pisaster ochraceus
Wish I knew this one…
Surfgrass
A leafy green – sea lettuce
Eelgrass
Mola mola
Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Wrack Line
Sitka spruce cone
Cormorant
Sperm whale
World traveler
Walk-in freezer panel
Dungeness crab carapace
Roly poly, Alloniscus, up in the wrack
Lost recreational crab gear
A pioneering dunegrass, Elymus
Megalorchestia californiana, exoskeleton
High seas drifters, Lepas anatifera
Lost DIY buoy
August 30, 2015
rat-tailed sea cucumbers, Paracaudina chilensis – from a summer beach cast event
Clear jelly blob
Common murre
Mytilus californianus and Semibalanus cariosus
Old bleached Velella velella
Shell barnacles on a Cancer productus carapace
Metacarcinus magister carapace
Pinching claw, Metacarcinus magister
Surfgrass, and some hitchhikers
Unexpected beach cast
Stowable wheeled bed
Plastic seashell
You can’t hide from the gulls
Surfgrass, Phyllospadix
Washed away
Northern fulmar
Aurelia
Nereocystis pneumatocyst
Rockfish carcass, gull tracks
Diodora aspera
Siliqua patula
July 4, 2015
Lot’s of baby Pacific mole crabs, Emerita analoga, in the drift line
Fucus, and eel grass, Zostera
Moon Jelly, Aurelia aurita
Angling in vain
Those gulls will pick at anything
I just don’t know…
A jelly lens captures the sun and magnifies the sand grains beneath
Eccentric sand dollar test, Dendraster excentricus
Sea gooseberry, Pleurobrachia, a ctenophore
Olivella raceway
Jelly fragment
Tracks
Drift Fucus and some hitchhiking pelagic goose barnacles, Lepas
A freshwater plant, huh?
Pinching claw – Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister
June 17, 2015
The wait for low tide
Good use of cobbles
Survived last night’s high tide
Lost lens
A rare appearance on the surface
Only time you’ll see this cutie out and about is when a gull pulls it out of the kelp
Olivella show
Pacific razor clam, Siliqua patula
Olivella trail
Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister, carapace
Tellin
Slippersnail
Wrack line construction
Strap kelp, Lessoniopsis littoralis
Sea cabbage, Saccharina sessilis
Drift away on the making tide
Big wood in the wrack line
Worked good while it lasted
May 30, 2015
To the beach!
15 cm rule
A clean drift line, as far as the eye can see
Look at all that beach hopper activity – guess Copenhagen really does satisfy
In the surf
May 18, 2015
Fresh drift Egregia meziesii
Macrocystis has a float at the base of each blade
Small pelagic goose barnacles on a Macrocystis blade
Butterfly shell (chiton valve)
Drift log
Velella impression on a driftwood
Wrackline puzzle
Cairn
Sargassum muticum
Lots of old and new Velella velella in the drift line
Fucus and by-the-wind sailor in the drift line
Drift mass of Macrocystis; just a bit of Egregia meziesii in the mix
Mostly Macrocystis; a few bleached and fresh Velella velella
Egregia meziesii stipe with floats
April 20, 2015
Bleached by-the-wind sailor skeletons carpet the drift line
Eccentric sand dollar, Dendraster excentricus
Bird’s nest
Anti-static
Tangle
Fetch?
Newly arrived drift log, carpeted with pelagic goose barnacles, Lepas, anatifera
Old Velella, new drift line
Popular in the wrack
Fetch? A few old Velella velella in the mix
Almost hidden among the bleached Velella velella tests
A 9.5′ high tide just kissed this fire pit at 1:45 am
April 11, 2015
By-the-wind sailor, Velella velella
Sargassum and by-the-wind sailor
By-the-wind sailor, Jockey Cap in the mirror
drift line dominated by by-the-wind sailor
By-the-wind sailor in the drift line
By-the-wind sailor drift
Extensive by-the-wind sailor drift
By-the-wind sailor, Velella velella
February 21, 2015
Polished shell – if you know what this is, let me know!
Rough keyhole limpet
Fat gaper chondrophore
Fat gaper chondrophore
January 19, 2015
Fresh driftline – 15 cm rule
Scrubby
Float
Bull kelp drift mass
Shearwater
Pelagic goose barnacles on a drift log
Drop me a line if you know what this is
Crab buoy
Lonely driftwood
Space is at a premium on this California mussel
Made in Portland
Know your bony fish anatomy?
Pacific razor clam
Lost knot
Cassin’s auklet
California mussel
Sheath
Cockle
Styrene float
Bull kelp blades
Line
Nice mix
Macoma
Fuel cannister
Multi-use product
Western grebe
Sparkling jelly blob
Bull kelp drift mass
January 10, 2015
Conifer needles, brown and green, in last night’s drifline
Melted plastic, I thought it was a rib bone
Float
A line-up of older bull kelp stipes and pneumatocysts (floats); the blades are eroded away
Giant barnacle test embedded in a bull kelp holdfast
Common murre, non-breeding
Cairn
Plenty of sticks up in the cobbles
Plastic bag
Been knocking around a while
Size 8
Pacific razor clam
Bull Kelp drift
