Plaskett Rock
The guano-crowned sea stack off Sand Dollar Beach that carries the family name — visible from the whole Pacific Valley shelf.
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The Guano Harvest: Farming the Top of Plaskett Rock
Ed Plaskett and his brothers built a way to the top of Plaskett Rock — where centuries of seagulls had left a crown of first-rate fertilizer, free for the scraping.
place history
Plaskett Rock: The Family Name, Written in Stone
Off Sand Dollar Beach a white-crowned sea stack carries the family's name on every chart of the coast. Bill and Kim photographed it from ridge, point, and sand.
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Boat Day - The Holiday That Surpassed Christmas
Not Christmas but Boat Day was the great holiday — the day the ship came in with everything the coast couldn't make.
Everyone the family archive records in the story of this place. Descendants: if one of these is yours, we’d love to hear from you.
- William Nicholas Alderson 1956– · 2 stories
- Edward Abbott Plaskett 1881–1973
- Kimberly Dawn Mueller Alderson 1964–