Driftwood letters

You would think, with the hundreds of thousands of pieces of driftwood that you can find on the beach, it wouldn't be too hard to find "letters".  If you want an i or l, you're in luck, but try to find the letters f, d, b, s, h, or c.  I'm talking one piece of driftwood for each letter, not piecing them together with a bunch of straight sticks.  A friend of mine, a famous Forks beachcomber, has written his sons names in large driftwood pieces he gathered over the years and placed them on his wall, so I know it can be done.  I've been searching, very sporadically, for about a year now, to find "Life is better at the beach".  Time to get back at it.

Jeffrey Foss to the rescue

One of my favorite things to do in Sekiu is to monitor the ships with http://www.marinetraffic.com/.  The little ship icons are color coded, green for cargo ships, red for tankers, turquoise for tugs, etc. and are even different sizes indicating whether the ships are large or small.  Or is it a ship vs a boat?  Anyway, a cargo ship was pointing north when it should have been turning east to enter the Straits and was barely moving at 1.1 knots.  The little turquoise icon, the Jeffrey Foss,  headed straight for the stricken ship.  Now the tug is bringing the cargo ship in, chugging along at about 9 knots.  Perhaps a disaster averted by that hardworking tub.  The Jeffrey Foss is stationed in Neah Bay for just this purpose.