Low tide, high beauty: West Seattle shore scenes

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WSB contributing photojournalist Christopher Boffoli wandered the West Seattle shores during this afternoon’s mega-low tide — lowest of the month — to capture images like those, and a few more you’ll see ahead:

Christopher notes school groups were wandering the tidelands in abundance, as were others — here, he caught up with Susan Cyr and Judi Engel collecting seaweed for a classroom project at Camp Casey:

forrest (with 2 Rs) May 7, 2008 (3:49 pm)

I can’t wait for the low tide next month on the 4th.

I read somewhere that its supposed to be the lowest tide in 20 years!

pam May 7, 2008 (4:43 pm)

Yay! Low tide season is here! Yay! It is one of my 900 favorite new things about West Seattle.

Cap Hill=no low tide. So there. ;-)

toodles May 7, 2008 (6:01 pm)

So gloriuos!!

wsgirl May 8, 2008 (1:31 am)

So June 4th is the next extreme low tide? What time of the day?

forrest (with 2 Rs) May 8, 2008 (8:20 am)

I think its at 11:48am.

These are the two sites I use to know what time high/low tide is:
http://www.dairiki.org/tides/daily.php/sea/2008-06-04
http://www.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/get_predictions.shtml?year=2008&stn=1814+Seattle

WSB May 8, 2008 (9:40 am)

Forrest, thank you. I meant to answer wsgirl’s question but got sidetracked in the wee hours … dairiki.org is the one we use too. Will add that low tide to the events calendar so we all have a reminder :) — TR