The Evergreen Cabin, proud member of our recently completed Beach Camp Neighborhood, has recently become the first LEED© Platinum certified home at Seabrook!

The Evergreen Cabin is now one of only 125 LEED© certified homes in Washington State, and the only one in Seabrook, the city of Pacific Beach, and Grays Harbor County.

LEED© Certification is an internationally accepted standard that measures the sustainability of a building. There are two types of LEED© certification – residential and commercial. For each type of LEED© certification, there are multiple levels that a building can achieve: silver, gold, and the highest one – platinum. The Evergreen Cabin has reached the highest sustainability level for a residential home, which is quite outstanding!

As Seabrook’s most energy-efficient beach house, the Evergreen Cabin is a prime example of Seabrook’s commitment towards sustainable real estate development in the Pacific Northwest. Our homeowners are passionate about preserving the nature and truly believe in real-estate sustainability – which is what Seabrook has been about since its beginning.

For all the information on how the Evergreen Cabin achieved their Platinum LEED© Certification, read the press release featured in the rest of this article.

The 5th Annual Easter Egg Hunt took place last weekend on Crescent park and was truly a great time for everyone there! Around a hundred kids from all over the Pacific Northwest raced around Seabrook’s biggest green grass park hunting for Easter eggs and other small treasures. Three lucky egg hunters found Golden Eggs which were strategically placed in harder to find areas.

The weather looked gloomy right until the point when the Easter egg hunt was supposed to start. Then it cleared up and families with their kids, dogs, egg baskets, and cameras spent a fun couple of hours around the park and around Seabrook. We had many guests staying at some of our vacation rentals, as well as Seabrook homeowners that are by now regulars at these events. Easter Bunny was there too to take pictures with this year’s egg hunters and put everyone in a good mood with his goofy-looking costume.

We have gathered a bunch of pictures from some of the families present at the event, and are posting them here for you in case you couldn’t be there. Once again, Happy Easter to all and we hope to see you at the 6th Annual Easter Egg Hunt at Seabrook next year!

While many across the world celebrate Good Friday today, we thought we’d share some of our most interesting stories and facts about Easter with you. The Children’s Easter Egg Hunt has become quite the tradition at Seabrook and in anticipation, we’d like to share some fun Easter stories before the Easter Bunny arrives.

1. An Easter Egg Made of 4,000 lbs of Chocolate?

The Guinness Book of Records states that the largest Easter egg ever made was the one by Belgian chocolate producer Guylian in 2005. The edible egg was 27 feet tall, 21 feet wide, and weighed 4,299 pounds. The author of the humongous egg mentioned he had spent over 500 hours creating it – what we want to know though – how long did it take to eat it?

2. Medieval Times Tradition

Think hunting for Easter eggs is boring? You can always try this one. A festival of throwing eggs was held at a church back in Medieval times, where the priest would throw an egg at the choir and then the choirboys would throw it amongst each other. Whomever had the egg when the clock struck 12 was the winner! We just hope that egg was hard-boiled, otherwise that game is due to end very, very soon.

3. Easter? You Mean the Candy Holiday, Right?

Easter is the second most candy consuming holiday after Halloween in the US! In fact, when Americans get their hands on those bunny-shaped chocolate figures, 76% of them prefer to bite off the ears first, 5% eat the feet first, and 4% eat the tail first. That someone would do research on this is simply mind-boggling.

4. Easter Celebrations Around The World

The Christian Orthodox religions in Europe have a custom where they hard-boil and paint eggs, and then wack’em on Easter eve in an egg war. The person whose egg does not get damaged at the end is the winner and is supposed to have a successful year ahead. In Australia, kids exchange chocolate Easter eggs that have little toys in them. Fun!

5. Peeps Rule Easter

Americans buy over 700 million Peeps during Easter season. Obviously, this makes Peeps the most popular non-chocolate Easter candy. Recently, we took one of our homeowner’s advice and tried Peeps smores during a fire pit hangout at Seabrook. Needless to say, they were delicious!

Got any more fun stories and facts about Easter? We would love to hear them! Drop us a line below and share some Easter fun with us and our readers!

The beautiful Washington Coast is an inspiration to many in the Pacific Northwest. While some are inspired to capture nature’s beauty through the camera lens, others try and recreate it on a blank canvas. Luis Mestas, the founder of Lighthouse Ballet Academy here in North Beach, has recently sparked a unique interest in ballet among the locals at Seabrook and Pacific Beach. So many kids enjoyed the ballet lessons that he is now holding a weekly ballet class at Pacific Beach Elementary!

Luis Mestas’ bio includes a masters degrees in education and teaching experience in the Los Angeles school system. He has studied in Russia, Latvia, and Estonia, and has performed with the Pasadena Dance Theater, the Asian American, Ballet company, and Marat Daukayev School of Ballet in LA. He is also a good friend of Arthur Egeli, a nationally recognized artist that moved to Seabrook recently.

Arthur is, in fact, working on an art piece of his own at the moment. He is in the process of completing his second mural – both will be hanging beside the entrance to Lil’s Pantry, Seabrook’s grocery store. Arthur’s work will be welcoming visitors to Seabrook since the Lil’s Pantry market is located at the beginning of Seabrook’ entrance, just across the street from the oceanfront Northwest Glen neighborhood.

To see some action pictures from the ballet class, check out the slideshow below. If you want to find out more about signing up for ballet class or other similar events at Seabrook, check out our events page, or give us a call at (877) 779-9990.

Update: While the clam digs scheduled for Long Beach have remained canceled, the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife has given the green light for all clam digs on the Mocrocks beach scheduled for this upcoming weekend. Here are the dates and evening low tides:

• Friday, Jan. 29 (5:58 pm, -1.5 ft.) – Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks
• Saturday, Jan. 30 (6:41 pm, -1.5 ft.) – Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks, Kalaloch
• Sunday, Jan. 31 (7:23 pm, -1.2 ft.) – Twin Harbors, Copalis, Mocrocks, Kalaloch

The weather in January may have been surprisingly beautiful, but it seems like clam digger’s won’t get the chance to enjoy it. A clam dig scheduled for today, January 27 at Long Beach, has now been canceled by the State Department of Fish & Wildlife after it was confirmed that marine toxin levels in the water are too high for safe clamming. Recent testing found unusually high levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning, or PSP, in clams collected at Long Beach last week. Unfortunately, this type of toxin cannot be removed by freezing or cooking the clams, though no human fatalities have been reported from PSP poisoning in the last 70 years.

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Fire up your clam guns everybody – it is time to go clam digging! The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) gave the approval for a 3-day evening razor-clam dig bonanza! Starting today, you have the chance to hunt razor clams for three days at our very own Seabrook beach. Strap on those muck boots anytime between noon and midnight and have some fun by the ocean!

For your information, the Pacific razor clam (Siliqua patula) is found along beaches from California to Alaska. In Washington, the biggest you’ll get is about six inches long. They are exceptionally meaty and delicious for clam chowder, breaded and sautéed, or prepared in curries.

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Have you made your Seabrook plans but don’t feel like cooking? No worries, Front Street Cafe comes to your rescue with a full Thanksgiving dinner menu for you and your family!

Along with the regular holiday sides like potato rolls, mashed potatoes & gravy, yams, green beans, and cranberry sauce, you have the choice of turkey meat or prime rib cooked to perfection by the award-winning Front Street Cafe staff.

And the best part? They will deliver all this to your house if you would like to stay in for the family dinner. Hurry though, you have to order in advance to ensure all the food is still steamy when it reaches your table!

Click here for more information, and most importantly, have a great Thanksgiving Holiday at the beach!!!