Category Archives: Mud Bay & Rocky Point

Posting a King Tide photo is becoming an annual event for the Mud Bay blog. This is my third. The picture was taken at the north end of Mud Bay a few minutes before this morning’s official high tide (7:45 AM, 13.6 feet). I don’t have a GPS so I can’t be more specific on location. The small bulkhead provides a rough yardstick for measuring the water’s height. It’s rare to see water on its land side.

To avoid any hint of plagiarism, I revised my original photo caption, which quite accurately said “It was a dark and stormy morning.” That’s the Mud Cat in the photo. Normally he likes to patrol on the top of the bulkhead but not this morning. For the record it was a dark and stormy morning.

King Tides are higher-than-normal tides that occur once or twice a year in the winter when the moon is at its closest point to the earth and the gravitational pulls of the sun and moon are acting together.

Is your property a certified wildlife habitat? A home on Rocky Point that I pass by on walks and bike rides proudly displays a sign that it qualifies (see photo). Their sign made me wonder how many of the basic habitat elements (food, water, cover, and places to raise young) my property provides. Also whether owning the Mud Cat, a stealthy but rarely successful stalker of songbirds and rodents, is a no-no.
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The stop sign at the south end of Rocky Point Road takes a beating. As vulnerable as unspent revenue during a session of the state legislature, it is planted in the asphalt at the Y-shaped intersection with Marine Drive. Most drivers stay well to the right of the sign as they pull forward for a clear look at cross traffic. However, last night or this morning it got nailed—again (see photo). There’s no word whether a motorist was cited for the knockout blow. By early this afternoon, a temporary sign, anchored with sandbags and flanked by orange traffic cones, took its place.