West Seattle scenes: Frosted peaks, high seas

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Nice views from Alki this morning, during the first serious sunbreak we’ve seen in a while: The view of the frosted Olympics with low clouds in the foreground, above, is courtesy of David Rosen from SlickPix Photography; we caught the high tide at Alki, two perspectives below:

Checking the tide table, seems this isn’t even as high as it’s been – it peaks today at 12.4 feet in a few minutes, but the highest tide of the month was 13.2 feet on Christmas Day. P.S. Note the 8 pm -1.2 tide this Friday – if the weather holds, might be a nice low-tide walk for New Year’s Eve.

Eric December 29, 2010 (10:56 am)

If anyone’s interested, I took a few high tide snapshots on the 26th that are sitting on my website (I believe it was a fraction of an inch higher than on the 25th):
http://www.rubescens.com/dives/main.php?g2_itemId=4564

WSB December 29, 2010 (11:04 am)

Thanks, Eric! Great photos. Glad we didn’t have turbulent weather that day, or the entire Alki pathway might have been submerged. Re: highest tide, maybe it depends on which tide chart you use, but the one at dairiki.org, which I find easiest to refer to, says 13.2 on Christmas Day, 13.1 on the 26th, so that’s why I wrote what I did. Not that .1 of a foot makes much difference! – Tracy

Eric December 29, 2010 (11:14 am)

Yeah, my iphone and dairiki are for some reason disagreeing a bit about that day. Though the 26th definitely won for the simple fact it wasn’t actually raining at high tide :)

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