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robheinsoo

The Mystery of Dog Stone Beach

Jan 10, 2009 09:56

Eight years ago, my friend Steve was walking down a beach near his house on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. It’s a place he goes to look for rocks. Back then the beach was officially called Majestic Beach. The official name has changed, but Steve doesn’t know the new name and neither do I, the locals call it Cannonball Beach though ( Read more... )

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bruceb January 10 2009, 19:51:52 UTC

This sounds like the non-fatal companion to Stephen King's excellent short novel The Colorado Kid, which is very much about living with the questions you'll never get answers to. (Highly recommended. Oh, and not horror.)

robheinsoo January 13 2009, 07:16:08 UTC

I'll look for the Colorado Kid.

inkmonkey January 10 2009, 23:19:54 UTC

It sounds like they hold a dog show there and give out engraved stones instead of ribbons.

robheinsoo January 13 2009, 07:17:50 UTC

At this beach, you'd award the dog show ribbon to the cute puppy that DIDN'T get carried away by bald eagles.

An exaggeration, yes. But not by much.

Still, yes, your theory fits the facts as well as any.

armadillo_king January 12 2009, 23:32:47 UTC

Sounds to me like there is a pet cemetery on an eroding bluff up current.

Either that or someone took pet headstones for use as rip rap. Tumbling in the current would have weathered away the points and edges.

Kind of creepy either way.

Cannonball Beach/Dog Stone beach ozseeker May 8 2010, 00:06:39 UTC

I know this is an old topic...but, when googling for Cannonball Beach on the Olympic Peninsula, this is one of only two items that came up.

Last weekend some friends were staying over at a B&B in Port Townsend, around the breakfast table the subject came up about a beach the locals called 'Cannonball Beach' that was somewhere on the peninsula that had rocks that were round as cannonballs, hence the rename the locals had given it. No one knew the official name of the beach...

So, I was wondering could this beach you talking about be the same one they are talking about, although, I don't think there was any mention of engraved dog related stones! ;^)

Could you tell me the location of this beach? ...and do you know if there were/are 'round cannonball' like rocks there?

Thx