When: May 2018
Where: Semiahmoo
With: my partner
What: exploring the beach
Accompaniment: Beach Break by Julietta
Sandy beaches are a treat in Washington, where so many are rocky. We walked down Semiahmoo Spit from the resort, where I was attending a professional conference, to explore the beach at low tide. Seagulls hunted for lunch in the tidelands, leaving empty crab and clam shells strewn across the damp sand.
Heaps of green and brown seaweed covered the shore by the water’s edge, making a squishy mat in the inch of water that hadn’t withdrawn. We peeked into the hollows and underhangings beneath barnacle-encrusted rocks and small boulders and found clinging anemones, seaweed, and purple seastars.
Feet wet, we headed back towards the road. A rivulet of water trickled across the washboard sand from a pool that had been left higher up the beach as the tide receded. Moving in the pool was a colony of live, fuzzy sand-dollars!
After the great sea star wasting time it’s wonderful to see sea stars again. Something once so common I almost took them for granted. A good lesson – take nothing for forever.
Have enjoyed Season 1 – I’m betting it’s a great excuse to look back through your old photos! A delight for all of us.
That’s a good way to put it.
Thanks! It’s been fun looking back through old pics and revisiting memories 🙂 And neat to share them with others! Social media shifts the focus always to what’s new, pushes things down the feed so quickly and demands fresh — so this has given me the excuse to really spend some time with experiences from years ago. I hadn’t originally planned to write things to go with the photos but I’ve been enjoying that process too, in digging past the surface to try to remember the experience and what made it unique.