New beach, with rocks

Randomly driving about, I found a new access point to the beach, a short road, almost like a driveway, halfway along a row of private houses, unmarked except for a tiny sign at the bottom, "Shore Access". A brief scramble over rocks and logs leads to a wide, flat, sandstoney, seaweedy, rocky point, echoing with bird calls, tweets, squawks, screams, and peeps.

The south end of the beach, Gulls ahead, peeps to the right, sparrows among the logs lining the shore. Behind me, ducks, the heron, crows, more peeps. No people, no abandoned plastics.

And the beach is home to an interesting variety of rocks. See:

Rounded rocks and sand patches. Some are highly polished, by centuries of waves.

Button rock, sandstone, not polished.

What Laurie used to call an "Organic rock". With a heart.

Flat, but highly eroded rock, populated by barnacles.

Another flat rock, with interesting swirls and trails.

Glacier erratic, standing all alone.

There were many small slabs scattered about, looking as if they'd been chipped out of the rock on purpose. This one's even squared off.

A couple more. They make nice roofs for critters, easy to flip, even if they're wide.

Tide coming in. A row of rocks between sandy patches, a few more erratics. And a few dark ducks, too far away to identify without binoculars.

Blue-green rock, with barnacles and snails.

In a sandy patch, a peep with a long bill wades a tidepool.

Critters coming up next.