First High School Grad in 6 years on the Beach!

PHS class of 2013 graduate

Julia is the first high school graduate that we have had on our beach in the last 6 years.  The last graduate we had was Matt Banwart who completed high school in 2007.

Julia is pictured below in Gordon and Judy Thorne's '57 T-bird.  Class of '13 in a classic car!

teenager in a fancy car

Eagle and Otter, again?

I know I've already covered this a couple times but.. this photo I had to share!  Does it look like they posed for the photo?  They're thinking, "dont try to take the attention from us, this is our show!"  Make sure that you click to enlarge and see the expressions on their faces.

 

Eagle and Otter Show Takes on New Partner

Just when we thought that we had seen it all, the Bald Eagle brings the "kid" into the act! 

The new act; A juvenile eagle poses on a piling for camera.

With otter and parent in the background the young eagle keeps tries to learn the ropes.  "Those river otters are so hard to work with," she chirps

An Amazing Place!

What an amazing place we call home!  Here are a couple of photos that display why this is true..

After the fog lifted this morning! -  by Christy

...Later a pod of Orca cruised by! - Staff photographer

See video of Orca shot recently at Point Richmond Beach!

Click below:  
 http://youtu.be/HFjMngHT5ho

Eagle and Otter Show

The story goes like this...

The otter catches a fish and brings it onto the floating dock.  The eagle sees the otter with the fish and wants it.

The eagle tries to scare off the otter and grab the fish...

The otter is not deterred..

Finally the eagle succeeds in chasing the otter off of the dock..

                 ..but the otter brings the fish along into the water! The end right? 

 

No! the otter sneaks back around the dock..

And poof, the otter pops back up on the dock and says,
"wat up?"

Some photos contributed by Joyce

Warm Weather Brings out Neighbors

Record High temperatures Bring Neighbors to Water...

Cristina reviews paddle technique between spirts of laughter

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Cristina and Joyce kayaking

Joyce and Cristina stop for a quick photo

- Photos contributed by Cristina and Leslie

Whale Alert!

No it's not Nessy, nor is it Champ. A single Humpback whale was spotted on the morning of May 6 at 10:28AM right off of Point Richmond Beach.The photographer was fortunate enough to catch the tail fluke as the whale prepared to depart from the surface to deeper water.

Streetlight Repaired; Relocated

Raise your hand if you have received mail in your mailbox since last October.  IF you dropped by after dark did you use your vehicle's headlights or a flashlight to illuminate the mailbox so that you could see where to put the key?

Just what I thought. 

Well, the mailbox streetlight is now fixed, but it gets better. The light was relocated up by the mailboxes so that you can actually see what you are doing when you are getting your mail! The streetlight will now allegedly, come on at dusk and turn off and turn off at sunrise. The light will stay on all night long, allegedly.

 

This is all part of a project that the association took on when the light was observed as not working correctly last fall.





 

 Along with moving the light the wiring in the water shed was also brought up to current electrical code, for safety reasons.  This meant rewiring the shed by installing a circuit breaker box, circuit breakers, and a GFI outlets.  There were no circuit breakers or GFI's in the water shed previously.

 To the left is a new power outlet installed by the newspaper box. The newspaper box is now a Wifi hot spot courtesy of the hallie guest network. This is unrelated to the other work.

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