a wilderness journal

Boiler Bay rocky intertidal (north of the small sandy cove). Is this the boiler from which the site gained its name? Although I lived i...

I wrote previously about a fascinating intertidal kelp, the sea palm , found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean . A very close relative of t...

This post is the final of 3 about my trip in early July to the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island . Heading out of Bowman Bay in ...

Usually the ocean moderates climate here on the west coast, pushing down summer temperatures and keeping winters mild.  However, sometimes w...