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Hood Canal Bridge from the beach

detritus

Detritus on the beach near Tongue Point

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May 28th [of 1853]. We had a troublesome time with our boat. The tide was coming in, and the beach being lined with small boulders, the launch was in danger of being thumped to pieces by the action of the waves which beat the shore with great violence. There was no alternative but to put some men to work to keep her away from the beach until the tide was at the highest. This involved five or six hours of hard rowing, and at 9 o’clock when I did order the boat in she came in with such a force as to knock down the men who were on hand to pull her up. The waves did the work for us and landed her high and dry and safe for the night. Fortunately there were no bones broken. There is not a sailor among us, but if experience is to be relied on, it is to be hoped we will learn something.

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Muddy shore by the Boom Site

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Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40080

Wikimedia

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Beaches

Wikipedia

Beach (Wikipedia) A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles. The particles composing a beach are typically made from rock, such as sand, gravel, shingle, pebbles, etc., or biological sources, such as mollusc shells or coralline algae. Sediments settle in different densities and structures, depending on the local wave action and weather, creating different textures, colors and gradients or layers of material.