Welcome to the Start of Summer 2023!
As we round the corner into Memorial Day weekend, for many of us it's time to head to the beach, whether the ocean, lake, river or stream. It also means it's time for Dr. Beach's annual ranking of the top 10 best beaches in the US. While…
Spring Break 2023
WooHoo, time for Spring Break 2023! After the last 3 years, I would expect people are looking forward to a relaxing week somewhere, but here we're going to focus solely on beaches here in the US, for obvious reasons. For many folks, a tre…
2021 State of the Beach Report (Surfrider Foundation)
Earlier this week Surfrider Foundation released it's 2021 State of the Beach Report. While we have yet to read through the entire report, that will take a few weeks at 85+ pages, thought it was worth bringing this to light sooner rather than la…
50th Anniversary of Earth Day (and 38th Anniversary of the Conch Republic)
In honor of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day this Wednesday, 4/22, we're going to take a slightly different focus given we are beach and ocean oriented and the ocean makes up ~71% of the land mass of the earth's surface. When the initial Earth…
Beach Musings
As the dog days of summer kicked in this week in the greater Seattle area, today we are getting a break in the weather so rather than being down at my local beach cooling off, I thought I would do a blog post with just some random beach thoughts.Last…