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High wind + high tide = big waves. Nowhere was this more apparent than the Edmonds waterfront Saturday (11/29/14) morning. It had snowed the night before and I went down to the marina hoping to get photos of the snowy owl in the snow, but as you can see from these photos, the owl was nowhere to be found.
Olympic Beach and the start of the walkway out to the fishing pier. The bulkheads along the walkway were getting quite a pounding. The yellow pickup in the distance is parked in the parking lot by the Senior Center.
Logs were piling up along the beach.
The concrete pad which leads from the walkway down to the sand was completely submerged and filled up with driftwood.
On the way out to the fishing pier.
The inside of the marina breakwater across from the fishing pier. This is where the snowy owl had been resting during the day earlier in the week. Now you know why it was nowhere to be seen.
After our tour of the waterfront, we drove north to Sunset Ave.
Waves were breaking on the riprap at Mile Post 18 and spraying over onto the tracks. The electrolytic salt water can play havoc with the railroad's signaling system when it hits the rails.
Sunset Ave was wet with salt spray, as was my car. We headed for the car wash after taking these photos.
Note the brown, dirty water near the shore. There is a beach below Sunset Ave. during low tide. The brown color is the sand from the beach getting ground up by the waves. The beach may look different after the waves subside and the tide goes out.
Wild....we were there, Bill (Leanna, Cliff, Brian (his friend) and I. We parked at the senior center - the wind was strong enough to blow me off my feet. I called you to see if you were out there. No answer, so you must have been saving your life!!
The tide was so high that the top of the fuel dock support stood a little over five feet above dock level. During the super low tides of summer, the top will be about twelve feet above dock level.
I heard from several locals that the carcass of a deer was washed up with the driftwood.
