Freezing and Heaving

Street Smart Naturalist · Mar 6, 2025 · 6m · transcript

Recently on a walk at Dungeness Spit on the Olympic Peninsula, my wife and I saw a curious phenomenon. If you haven’t been out to this five-mile finger of sand and driftwood, you are missing out. It’s pretty darned amazing. That being written, we didn’t actually walk the spit. Unlike we usually did at the beach, we turned left, instead of right, and walked along the bluff that rises out of the water and runs toward Port Angeles. I have long liked this spot. The bluff is geology in motion. As waves undercut the face, sand and cobbles and boulders constantly cascade to the sea in a steady state…