by Maria Metler | Jun 26, 2020 | blog
This article was updated on june 1, 2022 to reflect the new rule that bonfires are no longer allowed at KVI. When I think of KVI beach, my mind fills with happy memories just as the tidal salt marsh floods at each high tide. Imagine the number of hours we, as an...
by Kathryn True | May 22, 2020 | blog
Every low tide I am seized by conflicting emotions of joyful anticipation and looming dread. I am excited by the prospect of entering the temporarily drained and accessible octopuses’ gardens—to walk among the sea pens I can usually only discern in a watery blur from...
by Bianca Perla | Aug 14, 2019 | blog
By: Bianca Perla “Is it not possible that a place could have huge affection for those who dwell there? Perhaps your place loves having you there. It misses you when you are away and in its secret way rejoices when you return. Could it be possible that a landscape...
by Kathryn True | Oct 15, 2018 | blog
Recent news of ailing orcas is stirring a sense of urgency around the health of our favorite whales and underscores their reliance on thriving salmon populations, which depend on the smaller and aptly named forage fish, like surf smelt and sand lance. For the past...
by Kathryn True | Sep 26, 2018 | blog
As I drove over the West Seattle Bridge last week, Mt. Rainier wore a bank of clouds like a mourning cloak. I had just learned that particulates from car tires washing into streams are likely responsible for mysterious Coho salmon die-offs around the Sound. As my...
