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Beachcombing theoutershores: a 2019 Retrospective
theoutershores’ seventh year concludes with this, my 26th post of 2019. I’ve uploaded lots of images from the Oregon coast and a few from Galiano Island, Salish Sea. Northern Oregon coast |...
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Take a Walk on the Wrackline: A Drifted 2019
2019 wrackline was full of drifted treasures. Some had human origins, others arrived from rocky intertidal, subtidal, pelagic, estuarine, and terrestrial sources. Unravelling the stories of marine...
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Examining Leading Lines in Scenes from the Intertidal
I’m going to argue there are leading lines here. The one I didn’t expect runs between the eyes of the purple shore crab, Hemigrapsus nudus. It plays well against the rock’s curved outline. To my eye,...
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Invitation to a Tidepool Treasure Hunt
Exposed kelp, brown, in the foreground, and green seagrass beyond, signal low tide, an invitation to treasure hunt. Sea cabbage, Hedophyllum sessile, shines like gold in the morning sunlight. This...
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Reflections From the Shore
The seascapes below highlight reflections from beach and tidepool surfaces; transient low tide mirrors. Headlands, outcrops, maritime forests, sea stacks, and even the setting sun serve as subjects....
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Time-Lapse Tidepool
Teeming with anemones, giant greens if you want to get specific, it’s a pool with a lot going for it. Its water is clear as crystal, and tucked away, sheltered from winds, there isn’t a ripple. Its...
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A Simple Pleasure From the Shore
Mazzaella splendens is one of those red seaweeds known for the looks it throws your way. Its iridescence isn’t a given, but when things fall into place, rainbow leaf, as it is sometimes known, lights...
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Revisiting a Landmark
Below, is the first photograph I took of what is now one of my favorite northern Oregon landmarks. I say landmark, as far as I know, it’s not a landmark for anyone but me. It isn’t a single rock, it’s...
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Earth Day 2020
Sunrise on beds of seagrass and kelp Will future generations marvel at sunrises over these lush beds? You’re part of this
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Dodecaceria, Cropped
This mound is home to a colony of marine worms, Dodecaceria, probably D. fewkesi. Here, the worms have retreated, it being low tide, into their calcareous tubes. Their tubes are embedded in a matrix...
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Quiet Moments From the High Intertidal
Among invertebrate inhabitants of the high intertidal, activity, for some, grinds to a halt when things dry out.Clamped down against a vertical wall with shells for protection, waiting out low tide...
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Missed Opportunities with Littorina sitkana and Gloiopeltis furcata
I’ve surprised myself twice recently by unexpectedly noticing species I’ve never seen in the wild in my photographs featuring other species.The periwinkle below, the little striped snail, escaped my...
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Update From theoutershores
We all know someone or have heard of countless humans facing ruin or heartbreak from Covid-19. Before I share what I’ve been up I want to acknowledge Covid-related suffering everywhere and express my...
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Macro Monday: Pollicipes polymerus
When it comes to intertidal close ups Pollicipes are agreeable subjects. They won’t much change their demeanor if, to get things right, you need to nestle in among them. Gooseneck barnacles,...
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The Crowded Rocky Intertidal Bursting with Life
Surf swept rocky northeastern Pacific shores host marvelous biological diversity and abundance. A good place to witness the profusion is up close, on the dead level with a barnacle. Surrounded by...
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Accentuating a Flatfish and a Limpet with Negative Space
This little flatfish, one of those pesky pleuronectids, the righteye flounders, was just a babe, washed up as so much sea wrack when I noticed its perky eyeballs protruding from the smooth,...
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Off to the Shore for a Symmetry Beach Party
Welcome to my small celebration of symmetry. This beach party’s a renewal of kinship with animals we share symmetry with and a reminder that symmetry varies in ways worth appreciating. An in-depth...
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Bringing You Along
Just memories now, of a beach walk, August 19, 2020 6:17 am: Accepting an intertidal invitation. 7:02 am: Touching base with an old friend, a study in zonation. 7:58 am: A pause to take in morning...
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Communication or No?
A strip of open space between adjacent colonies of pink-tipped green anemones, Anthopleura elegantissima. Communication or no? Communication
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Tidepool Treat: The Schizymenia – Katharina Connection
The low tides of late summer brought me a tidepool treat. I’d read about a connection between a red seaweed called slimy leaf, Schizymenia pacifica, and the Katy chiton, Katharina tunicata, but hadn’t...
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