Wave Art

Light and wind make art on the Pacific. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Rock Sculptures

The rocks embedded in Home Beach, swirled and sculpted by the tide. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Fernlights

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Morning Beachrocks

Low tide at Home Beach on Trinidad harbor. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Just Humming

Hummers around the feeder are like the Battle of Britain. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Surf on the Point

The swells were 16 feet and throwing up fog on Patrick’s Point. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Lulu Boneface

Lulu doesn’t actually eat these bones, but she likes to show them off. (©Ted Pease)

Foggy Coast

Murres speed through the fog off Patrick’s Point. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Crusty Old Poop From Above

’Nuff said. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Murres

Common Murres—uncommonly fast at sea. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Murres Surfing

Common Murres speed past the surf at Turtle Rock. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Seal Rock

Actually, the place is Turtle Rock, about a mile off the coast north of Trinidad, Calif. Covered with sealions, jealous of their new pups at this time of year, and protected by a serious ocean surge. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Garden Toad

Green in the CooPeasian garden. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Fern Dew

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Sealion Pups

Sealion pups lounging. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Fish Food

A couple of rock cod and a halibut await filleting. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Pelicans Leaping

Brown pelicans leap from a rock off the northern California coast. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Earflaps

Sadie the Seadog takes on a Flying Nun quality as the mighty Toad rounds Trinidad Head. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Pelican Lineup

Hanging out atop Turtle Rock. (©Ted Pease 2009)

FirstFish ’09

Yup, that’s the first rockcod of the ’09 season. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Sadie Seadog

Sadie aboard Toad, out to sea. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Sadie Boat Dog

Sadie, er, “mans” the boat aboard the mighty Toad. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Bird Rock

Pelicans dive off Turtle Rock as sealions bark. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Chillin’

Lulu knows when to rest her dogs. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Perfect

Brenda and the dogs finish their morning run on Indian Beach with a footwash in Parker Creek. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Parker Creek

Parker Creek comes out to meander across Indian Beach—called Home Beach by the Tsurai—to the harbor. Dogs meander, too. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Albatross

About eight miles out of Trinidad, a flock of albatross swooped in to land by the boat, one at a time, until there were more than 20. A happy day at sea—is there any other kind? (©Ted Pease 2009)

Holy Halibut!

42 lbs. That’s the result for the first try at halibut since dad caught one by accident from the skiff in Maine in 1965. (©Jim Gullet 2009)

Cap’n Jim

Jim Gullet, skipper of the Wind Rose, a crab boat out of Trinidad, waits for the fish to bite, eight miles out to sea. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Bait

On her first day in the water, the mighty Toad caught the limit of rock cod, from A to Z. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Runner

We run and run and run...and get here. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Beach Hounds

Lulu and Sadie prowl Indian Beach for kelp and revolting things to roll in. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Fishboy ’04

Good times, good snacks . . . while there was still a salmon season: 2004. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Footwash

Sadie and Brenda clean their feet after a run on Indian Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Pretty Pony

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Horsenose

The colt in the Saunders’s field likes passersby. Looking for a name. Or an apple in your pocket. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Nasturtiums (or Nasturia?)

(©Ted Pease 2009)

More Ferns

(©Ted Pease 2009)

Ferny

(©Ted Pease 2009)