Plaskett Rock

The guano-crowned sea stack off Sand Dollar Beach that carries the family name — visible from the whole Pacific Valley shelf.

Stories set here

story

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.

The people of Plaskett Rock

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–