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Not long after we uprooted from Kansas City to Seattle our best friends found themselves migrating to Denver. We’ve made a couple trips a year to Denver to hang out, see some different mountains and drink a lot of good beer. A major part of all of these trips is Dry Dock Brewing in Aurora, CO.

This 2009 Great American Beer Festival Small Brewing Company of the Year is home of the most delicious beer to be found, a Vanilla Porter. From their website, “GOLD MEDAL, 2006, 2007 and…

Just a follow up, all the pictures seen previously, plus all the others I didn’t post.

I think it’s probably going to be unlikely for me to ever get tired of starfish. They’re in that familiar shape and alarmingly bright. As with most sealife it has an alien like ability, regenerating its arms and making it slightly scary since I have no idea how to regrow my arms.

Each starfish on the beach seems new and exciting, and I bent down to take a picture of each one even if it looked like the last. I didn’t want to miss a single one because they all seem…

Of course during low tides the cockle shells, hermit crabs and tiny clams were abundant. Here’s another snapshot of the tide pool life.

In my last post I mentioned the moon snails drilling holes for food. You can see how perfect and exact their holes are in this picture:

West Seattlite Pam also has a lovely write up of her and her husbands trip to Lincoln Park during the low tide that is worth checking out.

Tomorrow I deal with the 100 starfish…

Sunday around 10am was the lowest tide of the season in the Puget Sound. Jason and I got up and headed down to South Alki Beach in West Seattle to play in the tide pools with other curious people and the friendly, helpful Seattle Aquarium beach naturalists. As I took a lot of pictures and saw a lot of brand new things I’m going to split these creatures into a few separate posts.

Moon snails, Euspira lewisii after Lewis & Clark, are pretty much the scariest things I’ve…