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Days on the Beach

We spent most of last week at the beach.

One of my favorite scenes
Sand shrimp make good fish bait but first you have to catch them.
Dogs help with fishing
Ken flew his kite
Beach erosion. This used to be an easy level walk. Now it’s a ten foot drop to the beach.
Highly erodable cliffs.
And yet, they keep building.

Dogs Just Want to Have Fun

Luna and Sky love water and they love the beach. We never did fully tire them out despite throwing sticks over and over and over again. Sky would still be at it if we could keep up with her. Luna took breaks to smell stuff.

 

Beach Sunset

One of my favorite things – sunset on the beach. A comfy chair on the deck, a glass of wine and dogs by my side. It doesn’t get much better than that.

This group of women gets together here every spring.
It’s a nice place to stay. Someday a tsunami or climate change will take it away so we enjoy it while we can.
Good light for Luna

Beach Scenes

The light at the beach is so inviting for photography. Maybe it’s just that it is so different from the mountain light where I live. It’s a different color and certainly less contrasty even when the sun is shining. Maybe from the moisture in the air? I return from beaches with lots of photos of just the beach, the waves, the sky – big empty canvases with little detail it seems. But there is so much to see if you look closely. Flotsam and jetsam from the sea and beyond. Birds. Anglers. Algae or seaweed.

A small flock of shorebirds
That brown color is an algae that the clams and fish like to eat. It also makes dogs very dirty.
I could look at waves all day long.
Flotsam
Jetsam.
I was much relieved to discover that there was not a body attached to this survival suit and hope it simply fell overboard by itself.
The day I arrived, this magenta/purple algae lay in long sheets at the high tide line. It was very stinky and slippery. Each day it dried a little more and at this point it resembled old tar paper, dried out and blowing in the wind. The dogs were fascinated by it.
Razor clam shell
Dungeness crab shell. One time we thought we were digging a clam but it turned out that a crab had buried itself in the sand. It nearly pinched Ken’s fingers before he re-buried it.

Beach Dogs

Razor clam season opened up on our favorite Washington coast beach and we were able to get away for a long weekend for some much-needed fun times at the beach. We welcomed the vernal equinox (and my birthday) near Pacific Beach with fried clams and chocolate cake before going out to dig more clams. Ken did some surf fishing also. It was a fun weekend and a great getaway from the long mud season we are experiencing here at home.

As you might imagine, the dogs were thrilled with the idea. We even took along an extra dog, our old buddy Wyatt Ann. She’s not Sky’s favorite dog pal but Luna likes her. Sky seems to be recovered from her strained bicep tendon that has bothered her since December. We still do not throw sticks and balls for her since she puts all of her canine energy into retrieving. She was happy to just run on the beach, bring things to us and have the other dogs try to catch her.

Wyatt Ann will never catch Sky
Sometimes Luna can catch Sky
Sky wants to help Ken with his surf fishing
Wyatt was not as interested in the surf fishing.
Oh look – he got one!
Fast dogs
Would it be too much to ask them to all look at me at the same time?
Hey – look over there!
Looks a little windy Luna.