Welcome to the first dispatch from Anchor and Drift. 🌊
If you found your way here you probably feel the same pull we do — toward open water, wild places, and the kind of mornings that start before anyone else is awake.
A little about who's behind this newsletter:
I'm a marine biologist based on the New England coast. I've spent my career doing benthic surveys, macroalgae research, and coastal environmental work — which is a fancy way of saying I get paid to study what lives beneath the surface. Outside of work I'm on the water as much as possible — fishing, wing foiling, sailing, surfing, and dragging my kids into the ocean every chance I get.
Anchor and Drift is where all of that lives.
What you'll get every week:
🎣 From the field — a real story from wherever we've been. A reef in Puerto Rico. A foggy jetty in Rhode Island. A flat water foiling session at dawn. Real dispatches, not content.
🌊 Marine science made simple — one thing I learned from the ocean this week that most people don't know. Sea turtle navigation. Kelp ecology. What a healthy reef actually looks like versus a dying one.
⚓ Honest gear thoughts — from someone who uses gear hard in real conditions. No sponsored opinions disguised as reviews. Ever.
🚐 Coastal living — van builds, boat repairs, anchorages worth the hunt, surf spots worth the drive, family adventures worth the chaos.
📍 Where we've been — coming off a trip to Puerto Rico where we found a night tide reef walk that stopped us all cold. A sea anemone in full bloom at 9pm by flashlight. The kids haven't stopped talking about it.
This week's marine science moment:
Did you know green sea turtles return to the exact beach where they were born to lay their eggs — sometimes after traveling thousands of miles across open ocean? They navigate using the Earth's magnetic field like a biological GPS that gets calibrated at birth. We swam with one last week in Puerto Rico. She was completely unbothered. We were not. 🐢
Gear on my mind this week:
A good underwater camera changes everything about how your family experiences the ocean. We've been shooting with a GoPro in a dive housing — not perfect but it captured the reef fish explosion you may have seen on our Instagram this week. If you're looking for an entry level setup I'll have a full breakdown next issue.
Until next week — get outside, look closer, and leave the reef better than you found it.
🌊⚓ Anchor and Drift
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