Wet Wandering

The peace of a morning beach on Trinidad Harbor. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Lunch

A voracious ruby-headed hummer stops for a snack. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Gerry & Melody

Best neighbors ever—Gerry & Melody Hamilton on Mill Creek Lane. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Girlfriends

The girls after a morning run on Indian Home Beach. Finest kind. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Runnin’ Fool

Lulu wonders why her mom is running up and down on Indian Home Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Final Meander

Mill Creek meanders a final 100 yards across Trinidad State Beach in its journey into the Pacific. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Anemone

A sea anemone colony filters a tidal pool. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Albacore

The beautiful albacore tuna, pre-sandwich. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Chasing Charlie Tuna

Heading out 50 miles from Gold’s Beach, Oregon, with Capt. Casey in pursuit of albacore. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Reel Good

You need a lot of gear when chasing albacore off-shore. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Rogue River Bridge

The Hwy 101 bridge leaps the Rogue River at Gold’s Beach, Oregon, at evening and midnight. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Orca Chasing Albacore

Casey pilots the mighty Orca 50 miles off Gold’s Beach, Oregon, in pursuit of the wily albacore tuna. (©Ted Pease, 2009)

Morning Beach

A perfect morning stroll on Trinidad Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Ocean Arch

Utah’s not the only place with sculpted arches. This one offers a reflecting view of Elk Head from the Trinidad State Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Toading

The mighty Toad is a silly boat for Pacific fishing, really. A rehabilitated Utah skiboat, 20 feet long, Toad does her best in her new life as a fishing boat, going really, really fast in pursuit of the wily salmon, halibut and rock cod. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Pewetole Reflecting

Pewetole Rock—an island really—is reflected on the wet sand of Trinidad State Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Grandmother Rock

Grandmother Rock is a comforting sentinel on Trinidad State Beach. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Where Mill Creek Meets the Sea

Mill Creek, which runs by our house a mile inland, eventually crosses Trinidad State Beach to the ocean in front of Pewetole Rock. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Flatiron Rock

From Trinidad Beach on a summer morning, the Pacific is, well, pacific, out to Flatiron Rock, where the sealions are barking. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Trinidad Beach Reflections

Rocks on a glossy Trinidad State Beach frame Lump Rock. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Pease Goes a-Toadin’

Pease the ocean-going wildman in mid-Pacific aboard the mighty Toad. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Deckdawgs

Lulu & Sadie are very attentive. Got cookies? (©Ted Pease 2009)

Beachbunny Brenda

The beach makes Brenda happy. (©Ted Pease 2009)

Drowning Party

Trinity River Rafting’s intrepid Nate (aft) takes a drowning party into Hell’s Hole on the middle Trinity. The victims are Wendy (yellow helmet), Judy (in front of her), Alex (in blue, being pitched into Gina and Grandpa Lloyd), and Peez, (purple aft—which says everything, doesn’t it?). In the next photo of this sequence, only Nate is above water, which is why he’s the guide.

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)