Notes from Halibut Point

  Chickadee with Poison Ivy berry After managing to survive the bare and frosty months of winter this Chickadee has turned to the dried frui...

F ew birds inspire as many descriptive words as the American Kestrel. 'Charismatic' is certainly one of them. Kestrel in flight Duri...

The two-acre quarry pond in Halibut Point State Park, being so close to the ocean shoreline, often hosts gulls and cormorants. The gulls com...

  Great Egret against the cliffs One sunny day after a slow morning in the Park I checked Folly Cove, the coastal indent that borders Halibu...

By the height of quarrying operations in 1909, the Halibut Point landscape had been rendered into a desolate, open-pit mine. It supported a ...

Standing today at the site of the Power Plant one can't help wondering how they did it, and where did all that stone go? Granite quarr...