These web pages were created and compiled to guide the curious individual into the realm of "knowledge is power" and "breaking through." "In the elders there is wisdom" is another phrase that could have been added, and now it is added, I suppose. There is something to be said for just plain pure education, knowledge, and curiosity to know about natural landscapes from the perspective of WILD NATURE. It is also hoped that these web pages will educate us all about the inter-relationships of the land and the sea, through the eyes of a gifted marine naturalist and historian of marine biology. The web pages were conceived around the unique lunar cycles of the winter solstice of December 21, 2000, between Pacific tides which were very dramatic, and ranged from 7.2' (4.2'feet above mean sea level) and -1.8' (3.2' feet below sea level). The tidal range on that day was about 9.0 feet.