The great weather and
midday low tides brought out the crowds on Sunday.
The tides on Sunday and today are the lowest daytime tides of the summer.
At the Foulweather Bluff Nature Preserve near Hansville, they had a near-record breaking crowd on the beach. One of the volunteers stationed there said 99 people were counted at noon. The most they’ve ever counted there was 150.
I spotted plenty of live crabs – including some burly Dungeness crabs – in Foulweather’s tide pools. Also in abundance during the minus 3 tide: cockles, horse clams, tiny green shrimp, tube worms, anemone and lots of speedy little fish darting in and out of the thick eelgrass.
Reporter Rachel Seymour was on Bainbridge Island at the same time, covering a Bainbridge Beach Naturalists-led walk at Point White Pier. Check out her story, photos and video here.
For more shots from Foulweather, keep scrolling down.
Photos: Tristan Baurick/Kitsap Sun
