Strange, weird or odd or whatever beach finds thread….

[cdnred]

On Puget Sound and Hood Canal, they are all about the same location wise in my opinion. There is stuff washing in on a daily basis plus what gets left on our beaches after a nice weekend like what we just had.
I don’t fish the coast, but it is likely the same there.
SF

Thanks for the tip, luv finding stuff washed up on the beach..

 

[Buzzy]

On Puget Sound and Hood Canal, they are all about the same location wise in my opinion. There is stuff washing in on a daily basis plus what gets left on our beaches after a nice weekend like what we just had.
I don’t fish the coast, but it is likely the same there.
SF

Brian -
Since I'm originally from the Olympic Peninsula and spent eight years in Kitsap County after college, I get it when you say "I don't fish the coast". To me when growing up in PA and Sequim, the coast was "the ocean". As a 38 year resident of "the Basin"** and hearing from all the local yokels that any saltwater west of Snoqualmie Pass is The Coast - so, good sir, you do fish the coast! ;-)


** The Basin ain't Eastern WA, it's somewhere between The Coast and Eastern WA.

 

[Stonedfish]

Brian -
Since I'm originally from the Olympic Peninsula and spent eight years in Kitsap County after college, I get it when you say "I don't fish the coast". To me when growing up in PA and Sequim, the coast was "the ocean". As a 38 year resident of "the Basin"** and hearing from all the local yokels that any saltwater west of Snoqualmie Pass is The Coast - so, good sir, you do fish the coast! ;-)


** The Basin ain't Eastern WA, it's somewhere between The Coast and Eastern WA.

Pat,
To me, there is the coast, the staits, the islands (San Juans), Puget Sound and Hood Canal. Even that isn’t technically correct, but as a lifer I try and keep it simple.
The Puget Sound area will never be “the coast” in my book.
SF

 

[Mossback]

The Coast
Straits
Islands
West End
The Canal
The Sound
West Side Rivers...and



Soap Lake

 

[Stonedfish]

The Coast
Straits
Islands
West End
The Canal
The Sound
West Side Rivers...and



Soap Lake

You forgot S rivers….
SF

 

[Mossback]

Yup
Should have use that instead of West Side

At least I got Soap Lake right...

 

[_WW_]

At least I got Soap Lake right...

Full of Mad Max types beyond that...

 

[Mossback]

The Pass
The Columbia
Soap Lake
The Rest
Idunno
Montaner

 

[Chadk]

Found this on a beach in the south sound back in the early 80s. Held on it all these years hoping to figure it out. Recently posted it to a site that deals with fossils - the consensus was: Bison Tooth.

 

[Stonedfish]

Water bucket and rubber donut.
SF

 

[BriGuy]

Last week, my wife and I spent a few days walking the beach at Cannon Beach, Oregon. One day we disturbed a couple of sea gulls snacking on a lancetfish.



I guess they are quite rare to find on the beach since they live out quite far and deep (up to 6000 feet deep). For a better series of pictures, check out @Matt B's post #281 on this thread.

We also saw tons of Velella velella washed up along the surf line all up and down he beach. Velella velella, aka by-the-wind sailors, are colonies of jellyfish-like creatures that use their sails to travel down the coast of California, out toward Hawaii and Japan and back here again to wash up en masse on our beaches each spring. These events are called "blue tides" due to the blue coloring of their bodies and the number of them. Quite the sailors, indeed.





There's always something interesting to find at Cannon Beach.

 

[Stonedfish]

Dinosaur water bottle


Birthday ballon


Anyone lose their valentine pillow?

SF

 

[Kfish]

Anyone lose their valentine pillow?
View attachment 110641
SF

From Kanal Karen?

 

[Jim in Anacortes]

Those "sailers" are no joke. In California .....they always signified major changes in ocean conditions... I always found them to be beautiful.... but the sight of them is unnerving... Millions of them "sailing" across the surface of the Pacific is quite a sight.