Starlight Beach Walk
Cama Beach State Park
Fri Jan 2 at 8:00 pm

After you park, walk down the road (past Cama Center) to the southern end of the beach. Park volunteers will be on hand to help you identify intertidal animals. The tide will be a -1.1 at 9:02 pm so you may see chitons, sea anemones, nudibranchs, crabs, seastars, moon snails, barnacles, and more. See what impact the Seastar Wasting Syndrome virus has had on our intertidal seastar populations.

Dress warmly, wear waterproof boots or sturdy shoes (walking on beach cobbles and rocks can be difficult). Bring one bright flashlight per person (also bring extra fresh batteries). These walks are very informal. You can head home at any time.

The weather forecast looks OK, but the walk may be cancelled if the weather turns foul. To check status, call 360.387.0846 after 5:00 pm on Jan 2.

If you happen to be in Edmonds on the evening of Sat Jan 17 at 7:30 pm, stroll down to Olympic Beach and join the Beach Watchers for a FREE Starlight Beach Walk.
Download the event flyer: 
www.snohomishcountywa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/21450

Tomorrow, Dec 26th, the morning high tide will be one of the highest of the whole year: +12.93 ft at 8:19 AM.

Join the Cama Beach State Park FIRST DAY HIKE on Thur Jan 1 at 1:00 pm.

Hike the trail to Cranberry Lake and explore the winter's view. Meet at the Cama Beach Shuttle Drop Off Shelter for this 2-mile round trip, moderate trail with your family (dogs on leash are welcome). Strollers can be used on this trail. 

Wear sturdy shoes, warm clothing, and bring water. The trail ends on top of an old beaver dam! A variety of birds and beaver are often seen from this trail. 

The weather forecast calls for a partly sunny day but call 360.387.1550 to check the status of the hike.

Be sure to bring your Discover Pass for parking.

Just released, the mini-documentary "Losing Paradise: Climate Change is Changing Mount Rainier". 

For more details see the News Tribune's full story by Rob Carson with photos and video by Dean J. Koepfler.

The 2015 Washington State Parks Wall Calendar is finally out!

To see a preview: http://www.parks.wa.gov/190/2015-State-Parks-Calendar. Calendars are $18.99 each.

To purchase online, visit http://myprint.wa.gov/. You’ll need to create an account. Once you are logged in, search for “2015 WA State Parks Wall Calendar”.

If that is too complicated, just call State Parks Headquarters at (360) 902-8500.

(BTW: The photos were donated and photographers don't receive any proceeds from the sale of the calendars)

At 3:03 PM PST, it will officially be Winter. Today, Sunday, December 21, 2014, we’ll have 8 hours, 25 minutes, 24 seconds of daylight.

(Tomorrow will be 2 seconds longer and we'll be heading toward the Summer solstice on June 21, 2015 when the day will be 15 hours, 59 minutes, 20 seconds long).

Washington State Parks is looking for someone who's handy with power and manual tools and has experience operating heavy equipment such as tractors, graders, mowers, dump trucks, etc. to be a Maintenance Mechanic 1 at Lake Sammamish State Park. Know a good candidate? Pass this along. A great job outdoors but close to urban life. http://agency.governmentjobs.com/washington/job_bulletin.cfm?JobID=1023760

Our very own Port Susan is on Vimeo!

The other stars of the Port Susan video are Tristan Klesick and the Klesick Family Farm!

Several new river monitoring sites have been installed near the Oso slide. See all the local real-time graphs.

For all sites in the west, see the National Weather Service's Advance Hydrologic Prediction Service site.