If you have never been to Birch Bay, Washington, you should put it on your bucket list. The Pacific Ocean comes into a small section of Washington called the straight of Juan de Fuca. Then it goes North and South and creates the Puget Sound. Where it goes North, Vancouver Island Canada comes down into it and forms the Strait of Georgia.
This creates more islands, great views into Canada, and a bowl shaped area known as Birch bay. When the tide comes in it is fairly shallow no more than 10 feet deep, but when it goes out, it goes out for almost a mile. Creating some of the best beachcombing areas ever.
One of my kids’ youngest memories is of us exploring one of our many beaches. They were walking and a gooeyduck squirted water on them and they wanted to know what it was. I proceeded to dig as hard and fast as I could and pull that critter out of the sand. They are exceptionally strong, so when I finally won and brought it to the surface, I had pulled it inside out and right out of its shell.
So they got to see what the inside looked like too! While I tried to do the same for Lisa, who was also with us on this trip, I was only successful in ripping off the goeyducks foot. Not sir if that meant I got stronger, or weaker in my age?
The first pic is Jonathan taking a turn at trying to dig one up and the second is the huge clam shell we were finding there, as big as my foot.
We saw some dungeon crabs, blue heron, seagulls, eagles, and sand warblers. All in all a great time at the beach and worthy of your visit!
Until the next adventure….
