A mountain lake under snow-dusted peaks and low cloud, with dark forest along the far shore.

The Sun has left early

We’ve adjusted accordingly.

Sweaters, mugs and other equipment for standing near water in increasingly questionable weather.

Prepared? No.
Warmer? Slightly.

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An old blue pickup truck on the wet sand at Pacific City, with Haystack Rock offshore under grey cloud.

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Pacific City · Tillamook County, Oregon

Pacific City is not a city

It has no mayor, no council and no city limits. It has 1,109 people, about 250 fishing boats that launch straight off the beach, and a headland that was found too unstable for a nuclear reactor. Somebody did check.

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Good places by the water, and what it would actually take to live in them.

A gull stands on the granite ramparts of Saint-Malo, with the castle towers behind it and the beach below.

Saint-Malo, France

Ramparts. Corsairs. A 13-metre tide.

A walled port of 47,000 on the coast of Brittany, with some of the biggest tides in Europe, flattened in 1944 and rebuilt to look as though nothing had happened.