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Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 7:51 am
by Jan K
Happy Holidays to all, everywhere ...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 12:50 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2018 5:43 pm
by oldsalt
Jan: I have never dived Holmes Harbor, but I have some pleasant memories of evenings at anchor there. I seem to remember that you found some sand dollars there once. Am I right? And Merry Christmas to you as well.
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2018 8:02 am
by Jan K
Curt, there are Sand dollars here, but did not see them on this dive.
Lion's mane jellyfish encounter, Holmes Harbor.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 9:00 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2019 9:17 am
by Jan K
Happy New Year.
"Beauty is everywhere - you only have to look to see it." (Bob Ross).
Even in the mouth of the Painted sea anemone...
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2019 9:04 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2019 8:28 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2019 7:14 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 12:00 am
by H20doctor
Thank you Jan for this amazing thread ... I enjoy every post
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 8:32 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2019 5:52 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2019 8:29 am
by Jan K
The wall built to protect the Keystone boat launch area was not a match for the destructive power of the storm.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2019 7:50 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2019 9:13 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2019 1:29 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:07 pm
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:40 pm
by Jan K
Keystone is hosting gathering of Wrinkled dogwinkle snails as it does every winter. This year it seems that there are attending the reproductive convention in larger numbers than year ago.
Is this happening in such numbers elsewhere in Puget Sound also ?
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 6:31 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:01 am
by oldsalt
A common cycle for beaches consists of erosion of during winter storms followed by deposition from river sediments during spring runoffs. Whidbey Island suffers from having no rivers to recharge the sediment, so you have only half of the cycle. Some of your beaches are sustained from erosion of adjacent bluffs.
-Curt
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:31 pm
by Sharkb8
Is the parking area at Keystone man made? As we all know, mother nature usually doesn't take much pity on things that aren't supposed to be there! As long as the water keeps following the erosion back towards the road and they relocate the bathroom, I'm ok with it! More of the jetty underwater would be an ok tradeoff for less parking.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:47 pm
by Jan K
I don't know the history, I think the parking area is fine, but the tailings from dredging were just deposited there and as I recall not much of compacting went into the effort. I am not engineer, but remember Pete shoveling access path on the new deposited rim, it was very loose, so I am not surprised that every really high tide took some of the material back to sea. Visibility since that dredging never returned to the good old days before dredging. Even Lingcod were covered with silt.
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:48 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2019 11:10 am
by Jan K
Re: Whidbey Island Critters
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2019 9:14 am
by Jan K