Calling All Polar Bears to Celebrate!!

Cattle come together in a herd, geese in a gaggle, otters in a raft,  What are a group of polar bears?  A celebration!  That is just what we are going to do; celebrate for the New Years by dipping into Puget Sound!

Where?  Point Richmond Beach Pilings
When? January 1, 2013 at noon.  

We will provide: a warm fire or two, tables, electrical power, paper plates, cups, and plastic silverware, conversation and encouragement.  

What you should bring;  your favorite polar bear suit, a towel.  if you like your favorite polar bear food, or drink.  

Last year we had a celebration of 65-70 polar bears. We look forward to the this years event. Do you think we can break last years record? 

Special Report: The Annual Picnic

  Point Richmond Beach Annual Picnic yields too much really good food, good times had by all, some decent stories. President Cristina runs a tight meeting. All officers remain in office.

New Neighbors, Carol and Jim Johnson

Newby Dave Vogel with Karen Warter

 

Best Swim with FISH Ever!

Swim with FISH 2012 was the Best swim to date with near 100 people in attendance, 15 one mile swimmers and about 8 kid swimmers!  There was plenty of food, live music and we raised $1327 for the Gig Harbor FISH food bank! Not to mention a huge bucket full of food! The tee shirts were the nicest to date incorporating our number 6 day marker icon in the design.


Swim results:

Fin Free Purests:
1) Steve Rees                  32:14
2) Tesa Johnson               44:33

"Other" Swimmers Using Fins, Snorkels
 - Possibly Even Submersible Watercraft:
1)   Mark Thomas            29:46
2)   Jeff Sala                   30:59
?)   Jeremy Fradget         33:50*
?)   Daniel Rees              33:35*    15 years old!
5)   Peter Bortel              34:25
6)   Larry Burr                35:11
7)   Chris Mayer              38:59
8)   Anthony Pennington  40:23
9)   Scott Huntington       42:38
10) Athena Petterson       46:20    12 years old!
11) Brooke Huntington    47:45
12) Rhea Barbosa           49:09     11 years old!
13) Mark Dietzler            57:05
*Two times were taken for each swimmer.The first time was when swimmer stopped swimming. The second time was when they touched or passed by the cone. While Jeremy stopped swimming before Daniel, Daniel went for the cone and touched it first.

Swimmers queue up for transport to Vashon Island

Claire, our environmentalist hold a piece of Styrofoam that she found on the beach

Peter B Charges out of the water.. like a Navy Seal on a mission!

Swim with FISH 2012 swimmers!

Swimmers queue up for transport to Vashon I.

 Official Timer Carol, left, assisted by Cody and Lane

Some of the "Kid" swimmers

Kari Ehli Band

Paddling for Pints

In case you were wondering, we did Paddle for Pints this year.  August 5 after the neighborhood breakfast about 6 paddlers and pedalers made their way to the Tides. This was accomplished by traveling down our shoreline down the shores of Colvos Passage to Harbor entrance via person powered boats. Below are a couple of photos proving that we didn't just "drive" to the Tides.  

Peter, Donna, Todd, Bridget, Joyce, Steve and Jim's arm.

  

Bouquet of Kayaks and a Paddle Board

An August night

Here is some of what occurred on the Beach during a warm August evening at Pt Richmond Beach...

Ben does snowboard style jump

Gavin Builds another fire

Tatum and Zoe are happy

Tatum and Zoe are about to get wet!

The 2 P's; Petal boat and pilings

Piper does historic jump into the sound!

Spectators

Piper, Todd and Peyton conquering the pilings!

Stick Contest Held on Beach

Ben, Sam, and Hanna show their sticks!

The inaugural summer stick contest ended in a three way tie. Local children were said to have spent "hours" trying to find the longest stick but when they held them all up to compare sticks were miraculously the same length.  Unfortunately the photographer cut the top of the sticks off in the photo so we will never know for sure how the sticks compared!  Photo provided by Andrew.

Cornball a Hit on our Beach!

The game Cornbag was introduced here recently on Brower beach. Neighbors and friends from all around have come to join in the fun.  We hope we will see you tossing the cornbag into the cornhole soon!

Al uses his secret formula to toss the cornbag

Juliana proves to be "gifted" at Cornball. Tony prepares for his next toss.

Peter shows his cornball technique to the crowd while Al looks on

In cornball the spectators are cornball players waiting their turn!