All about the West Seattle neighborhood around Beach Drive
Every now & then an unusual vessel will cross our waters and warrant some BDB research! A spokesman from the ship's builder mentions that this $200 mil giant ice breaker recently built in Louisiana and commissioned by Shell Oil is considered…
"the largest vessel ever built by Chouest, and will be among the most advanced and powerful, non-military icebreakers on the waters."
I suddenly have "bigger boat" envy!
Scupper, for Beach Drive Blog
This young Stellar Jay has been following his mother around our courtyard this morning.
Watch the water shoot through the scuppers. Next high tide is a 10.5 at 4:17 pm today. Puget Sound Marine Forecast update: …GALE WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM PST TONIGHT… …SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 9 PM PST TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON… TONIGHT…SW WIND 25 TO 35 KT…EASING TO 20 TO 30 KT LATE THIS EVENING. WIND WAVES 4 TO 6 FT…SUBSIDING TO 3 TO 5 FT. SHOWERS. WED…SW WIND 20 TO 30 KT. WIND WAVES 3 TO 5 FT. SHOWERS IN THE MORNING…THEN SCATTERED SHOWERS IN THE AFTERNOON. WED NIGHT…SW WIND 20 TO 30 KT…EASING TO 10 TO 20 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES 3 TO 5 FT…SUBSIDING TO 1 TO 3 FT. SCATTERED SHOWERS IN THE EVENING.
Today marks the fourth cephalopod fatality I've witnessed in a year. I find it pretty odd given I haven't even seen a sign of one for the previous 5 years we've lived here.
The latest victim was found today as we were walking along Emma Schmitz Memorial View Point
When searching the web for the arch enemy of the Puget Sound octopus, I found this revealing clip of a wrestling match between a seal vs octopus
or could it be the work of…
Skin Diver Magazine, Puget Sound
Scupper, for Beach Drive Blog
After returning home from a great Thanksgiving feast at my parents home in Seahurst, I decided to take a peak out at one of the lowest tides of the year and spotted this out on the beach just north of the "Rock Pile"
Of course I had to get a closer look and snapped a few more photos for the BDB.
Hoping Black Friday's ultra low tide won't be bearing anymore cephalopod gifts!
Scupper, reporting for Beach Drive Blog
We could be in for some weather today so I thought I'd share the forecast I'm checking out.
…GALE WARNING IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING…
TODAY…S WIND 15 TO 25 KT RISING TO 25 TO 35 KT. WIND WAVES 2 TO 4 FT…BUILDING TO 5 TO 7 FT IN THE AFTERNOON. RAIN DEVELOPING THEN TURNING TO SHOWERS LATE.
TONIGHT…SW WIND 25 TO 35 KT…EASING TO 10 TO 20 KT AFTER MIDNIGHT. WIND WAVES 3 TO 6 FT SUBSIDING TO 1 TO 3 FT LATE. SHOWERS.
REST OF TODAY…WINDY. RAIN DEVELOPING. HIGHS IN THE 40S. SOUTH WIND 10 TO 20 MPH INCREASING TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO NEAR 45 MPH THIS AFTERNOON.
TONIGHT…BREEZY. RAIN IN THE EARLY EVENING…THEN SHOWERS LIKELY. LOWS IN THE 30S. SOUTHWEST WIND 15 TO 25 MPH.
We continue to have very high tides along with extreme lows:
Thursday, November 24:
- 9:36 am: 6.71 ft
- 2:49 pm: 12.26 ft
- 9:56 pm: -3.24 ft
Friday, November 25:
- 5:18 am: 12.33 ft
- 10.32 am: 7.04 ft
- 3:33 pm: 12.05 ft
- 10:41 pm: -3.57 ft
We wish you have a very happy, warm and safe Thanksgiving, from our family to yours!
Earlier we reported how a fishing net with buoys washed upon the rockery at Emma Schmitz View Point. The Department of Fisheries were notified however it appears that nobody was sent out to remove what could have harmed sealife until today.
A good neighbor was spotted pulling what is left of the nets from the rocks.
The Department of Fisheries has been notified about this empty net that have washed up on the rocks this morning. Upon taking a closer look, their did not appear to be any marine life caught up in the nets but you have to wonder what may have been caught up on it's journey to the shore.
My wife spotted this set of fishing buoys during her routine AM dog walk.
Scupper reporting for Beach Drive Blog
Our heartfelt gratitude to those who have served our Country and their families.
As I was walking our dog this morning, four UW vans pulled up along Emma Schmitz view-point. At least twenty students poured out with cameras and notebooks trying to capture some evidence of our local section of the Seattle Fault.
With the tide half way up, there wasn't much to look at except for the tops of a few boulders exposed to the rising tide… or were these actually "Spirit Boulders" left by the devastating landslides and earthquakes reported to hit this area in A.D. 900? A little research discovered that our native predecessors believed in a vicious guardian spirit named a'yahos (also referred to as Psai-Yah-hus) that appeared in this area and was associated with the existence of the infamous Spirit Boulder in Fauntleroy cove.
Could this be the same sea-creature my neighbor Eddy claimed to have hooked with a Buzz Bomb lure???
Scupper, reporting for Beach Drive Blog
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