Tomales Bay beach campers should set up tents high above the wrack lines, as the new moon of July 14 brings extreme tides—very low close to sunrise and then 7 feet in the midnight hours. Sand is again covering rock formations that were exposed by winter waves. Each year, sand is washed off beaches, deposited in offshore bars, and then returned in summer.
The holiday fireworks displays have passed, but mini fireworks are blooming on…