07/12/19 - Second Beach - Low Tide There have been some really low tides at the West End beaches, but road work at Lake Crescent has made it difficult to get out there except on weekends. This time, however, time and tide did wait for us, so we made our way out to Second Beach at an extreme low tide. According to the GPS, most of our walk was underwater, though with the low tide we were always on dry sand. We made our way out to the big seastack that is usually cut off by water and explored. This time, we didn't even have to wade, and we were able to make our way almost all the way around the seastack.The big news was starfish everywhere, but more on that in another post. For this post, the big news was a journey out to a usually inaccessible sea stack and getting a chance to explore its caves, beaches and tide pools. |
 GPS map showing us walking on water |
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 Stairs to the beach |
 The seastack at extreme low tide |
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 At the seastack |
 Hidden cave on the far side |
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 One of the sea birds |
 Exploring the far side |
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 Another view from the far side |
 The seastack via land bridge |
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 Barnicles on the rocks |
 Exploring the seastack, misty skies |
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 The near side of the seastack |
 Mysterious caves |
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 The main seastack is on the right. |
 Across the beach |
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 Sea, sand and seastacks |
 Algae on the rocks |
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 Plovers |
 The candelabrum tree, a happy mutant, with three branches again |
Keywords: beaches, birds, lake crescent, second beach, tides |
