slgwv's photos with the keyword: beach

Farther north along the beach from the previous photo. The "bathtub ring" from last spring's high water is obvious--altho it's been broadened by waves sloshing up the beach. Washoe Lake State Park, Nevada.

The lake dropped by a foot or so over the summer (note the high-water mark to the right), but it's still extraordinarily full from the blockbuster season last winter. Looking north; inset is another view from farther up this beach. Washoe Lake State Park, Nevada.

Columbia River, Washington state, USA. This is the last undammed stretch of the Columbia in the US, finally protected as a wild & scenic river. The Army Corps of Engineers tried for _years_ to build a dam, but it never happened. The Reach goes around the north side of the notorious Hanford Reservation, once the site of the primary plutonium-production reactor in the US. Large parts of the area are still off-limits due to safety concerns, but it's no longer a top-secret site. A few years before this, if you'd stopped your boat on this beach, you'd have soon been visited by some _very_ humorless guys toting M-16s! Ironically, it was probably the proximity to Hanford that kept any dam from being built.

I liked the way the ripples curved into the shoreline. You could use the photo in a physics class to show wave refraction :)

Arizona, USA. Across from the Tanner Trail. Here the canyon is much wider because the river is cutting thru the softer Precambrian sedimentary rocks.