About Us

As twins, we feel very lucky to be each others' best friend and to have a uniquely diverse extended family. Our formative years were spent off-the-grid in the mountains near the Rogue/Umpqua divide, and our hippie parents planted trees, fixed cars, and sewed all of our clothing. While growing up, we camped often during the summer and rented places on the coast during the off season. Family trips were typically spent with family friends, and we'd often rally 2-5 families for our excursions. Our mom followed the tide charts, and we’d have big crab feasts after a day at the Bandon docks.

Even though it rained nearly every spring break, we loved our beach trips. Darcy especially loved beach combing and became notorious for smuggling live sea stars, which soon stunk up the family car. In the fourth grade when Darcy first learned about plankton from Mr. A, she was hooked on learning about ocean life and the environment. She ended up studying marine biology in high school and college, and her favorite animal soon became an obscure gelatinous creature, the by-the-wind sailor, which sails across the ocean in colonies. While almost everything in the beach cabins are brand new, there's a throw blanket in the Wind Sailor's bedroom that was a gift from Darcy's Dad for Christmas when she was about 8-9 years old. She vividly remembers feeling very grown up by making such a gift request, and promised herself to keep it until she had a house of her own by the ocean...a dream that began over twenty-years ago.