Across
- 5. Oregon's chilly sovereign backyard ocean
- 6. Oregon's official state tree
- 8. Sheltered rocky inlet where the wind dies down and harbor seals rest
- 9. Green sea flora clinging to wet basalt rock faces
- 10. Rubbery ribbon washed up on the sand after a late-summer swell
- 11. A hill the wind built one grain at a time
Down
- 1. The enormous neighbor you hope to spot just offshore
- 2. What the moon keeps rearranging along the beach
- 3. The vast blue expanse that finally warms up just in time for second summer
- 4. Coastal waterway winding through Douglas firs toward the tidal surf
- 6. Classic coastal blanket that often burns off by afternoon in September
- 7. What a house becomes when your life moves into it