Community Environment
Photo Gallery: Readers submit their high-water pictures
High tides, low barometric pressure and heavy rains combined to raise local bays to abnormal heights the past few days. We asked readers to submit photos illustrating the results of the phenomenon. Here’s what you sent. Thanks to all who participated.
Linda Glein snapped a shot at Millville Marina on Friday of the floating dinghy dock getting caught under the stationary dock.
The Liddicks sent a photo from Fox Island of a ramp that usually leads down to a float leading up to it in Hale Passage on Friday.
Water encroaches on a boathouse and other structures in a shot by the Liddicks from Fox Island on Hale Passage.
Gregg Olsen photographed a mosquito fleet sign that’s usually on high ground swallowed up by the Olalla lagoon.
Joshua Small got a picture of daughter Millie pretending a park bench was an island at Skansie Brothers Park.
Joshua Small and daughter Millie waded across the water at Skansie Brothers Park and UP the incline onto the floating dock to get this shot.
Gig Harbor Police captured the scenes above, below and the hero photo across the top of the page at Jerisich Dock.
