Our journey to the coast yielded an entire box of stones suitable for painting!

Next week we are finally going to take a trip out to the Pacific Coast of Washington!

Trying to breathe new life into my beachcoming business... to help make a living in "retirement!"

First beach trip of 2026!

Random bits, from the ongoing re-imaging for Etsy, to show updates, to an impromptu beach trip.

Slowly starting to get back on track and trying to find some creative enthusiasm!

Took a beach trip today to an old location I used to beach comb... and things were definitely not as I remember them!

Part two of the strange tale of how I was a professional beachcomber for several years!

Part 1 of the story of how I got involved in one of the most UNLIKELY professions imaginable!

Hello Hello Hivians You might wonder what the fluff am I doing showing a picture, well two actually of magpies when I talked about fun and frolics on Seafield Beach. Squabbles or courtship Sometimes you

It was a fine cold morning and the intertidal zone is visible due to low tide. I immediately went home to fetch my wife so we can have a stroll along the exposed portion of the sea. As we took some selfies,

I beachcomb almost every day. When it's not covered in snow (and sometimes when if it's not too deep) I love to walk our little shore to garner my treasures. It's true they are not gold and precious jewels,

As spring gets closer, it becomes time to go beach combing... to find the special rocks that will become Alchemy Stones!

Tho, as I write thise, the snow has quiet gone it was magical when it came. It was that soft magical snow that feathers down when the temps just hover in and out of freezing (32F) The sea is ever changing

A short video for a #wednesdaywalk in the icy Winter air. Tho we've had a mixed bag of weather, with days being like Spring only to have the next plunge deep into icy winds, it's all of a piece for a New

Today's vlog has us relishing in the New Moon tide. I love both full and new moon tides as they are extremes: you get the highest and lowest tides thus. It often can give you the tidal flats which is wondefrul

Tho we've now snow on the ground, just last night, I thought I'd take you on a walk from just a few months prior. The Autumn day was warm and green and seems magical to me now as I sit and write this looking

We've had a mixed bag of weather, which is par for the course here in coastal New England. As I hear others speak of 'odd weather' I just smile as one day of freeze followed by a balmy 50 is the norm here

ON an icy day, not too long past, I was contemplative. Well, to be fair, I am that most days, but I had recently had a bit of trouble with my new vlog camera and somehow managed to erase a lot of footage

Once upon a time, I actually made a good chunk of my living from walking on the beach! Check it out!