Friday Harbor's shoreline

 

I believe that this photo is in the special collections of the University of Washington.  Link needed though.

A short-term teaching residency at Friday Harbor Laboratories means that I will have the chance to create some of the trademark now-and-thens for the shorelines of the San Juan Islands...and where better to start than at Friday Harbor Laboratory itself.  The photo above isn't all that old...it was shot in 1952, roughly three decades after the labs took root on this spot on the northern shore of Friday Harbor.  As the labs have developed this chunk of shoreline hasn't changed all that much, outside of the growth of trees along the shoreline:

29 October 2020 photo 

I am struck by one thing though in the 1952 photo - the amount of wood that appears to be accreted to the shoreline looks to be quite a bit more than at present.  There are probably good reasons for this - logging and log transport via tug-and-raft arrangements was presumably more common in the middle of the 20th century.