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CoastWatch Mile 245 County Lincoln Description Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek Boundaries N 45° 1.327', W 124° 0.546' to N 45° 0.429', W 124° 0.615' Google Maps Nearby Roads, Directions to/from, Google photos, Satellite image, Terrain overlay OPRD Map Cascade Head & Salmon River Mouth to Roads End Vehicles • Motor vehicle travel is prohibited from the Tillamook County-Lincoln County line (45° 02.6706', Mile 247), southerly to Yaquina Bay (44° 37.0374', Mile 215), except for the following locations within the corporate limits of Lincoln City: (A) A distance of 150 feet on each side of the westerly extension of North 35th Court; (B) A distance of 150 feet on each side of the westerly extension of North 15th Street. Weather Current Weather Conditions at nearby stations (may take a minute or two on a dialup connection) Tides The NOAA Tide Predictions site may be found here. Click on the station nearest to your location to see predicted tides in graphical and tabular formats. Photo 12 ft. piece of lumber   3/26/13 About a 12 ft piece of lumber with several notches and grooves. Terry

68 REPORTS FOR MILE 245: Terry Mar 26, 2013 3:30 PM   About a half dozen pieces of interesting lumber ranging from 4' to 12' long. Lacking hardware, the lumber had several grooves and notches. Tire tracks in the sand indicate the park ranger had been by earlier.   MORE    12 ft. piece of lumber    Description: About a 12 ft piece of lumber with several notches and grooves. Location: north end of Roads End Mile 245 8 ft piece of lumber    Description: About an 8 ft piece of lumber with notches and grooves. Location: north end of Roads End Mile 245 TerryH Dec 5, 2012 1:00 PM   Dead harbor seal, length about 5 ft, north end of Roads End mile 245, shark bite?   MORE    dead seal    Description: dead seal about 5 ft long Location: north end of Roads End mile 245 Date: Oct 16, 2012 4:00 PM Terry Dec 5, 2012 1:00 PM   Dead newborn sea lion(?) and lots of pulverized plastic bits in driftline. A few chunks of styrofoam and a Coke can with Japanese writing on it.   MORE    dead newborn sea lion?    Description: I'm guessing it's a newborn sea lion, about 3-4 ft in length Location: north end of Roads End mile 245 pulverized plastic    Description: Lots of pulverized plastic bits in driftline, mainly on the north end of mile 245 Location: north end of Roads End mile 245 Terry Oct 3, 2012 4:30 PM   Several people and dogs enjoying the beautiful weather. Half the dogs were off leash but well behaved. Another lone pit bull running loose with no one taking ownership. Two dead sea lions. Called OSP for burial. More graffiti on private seawalls.   MORE    dead sea lion #1    Description: head was missing, rest of body measured about 6 feet in length Location: far north end of Roads End beach, near the Point dead sea lion#2    Description: dead sea lion about 6 feet in length Location: nearest cross streets NE 68th and Logan Terry Sep 4, 2012 12:30 PM   Poly Rock on Labor Day 2012, with seabird "frosting"   MORE    Poly Rock, Roads End    Description: Poly Rock, complete with seabird "frosting" Location: north end of Roads End mile 245 Date: Sep 3, 2012 12:00 AM Terry Jun 11, 2012 2:30 PM   Beach was very clean except for a couple dead murres and a sea lion carcass just north of Roads End State Park. Called OSP to report the dead sea lion. It seems there are more bald eagles in the area this spring. Always a beautiful sight.   MORE  Terry May 24, 2012 3:30 PM   Tsunami debris? Maybe. I've been seeing an increase lately of styrofoam insulation, Japanese bottles and food wrappers with Japanese writing on them. Found a soccer ball that had definitely been in the ocean for awhile but no writing on it.   MORE    Japanese bottle    Description: Japanese bottle Location: far north end of Roads End mile 245 Terry Apr 16, 2012 2:30 PM   Just a nice day on the beach. Nothing significant to report.   MORE  Lvoelker Mar 4, 2012 11:00 AM   A gorgeous day, many people were out enjoying the beach. walking its length. Picked up an unusual and considerable amount of chunks of white styrofoam. Several small landslides have occurred this winter with continued undermining of the trees and foliage at the top of the cliffs. There have been very few birds normally seen in this area. Nine dead murres were found from 73rd Street access and to the north. A young man was seen climbing the steep and eroded cliff adjacent to the basalt outcropping at the north end of the beach.   MORE    Man climbing eroded cliffs    Description: A young man carefully picked his way toward the top of the eroded cliff at the end of the Road's End Beach, CoastWatch Mile 245. He frequently retreated from a cautious step or handhold as the sand and rock crumbled. Location: Road's End Beach, just south of basalt outcropping at the end of the beach Copyright: (c) 2012 Lisa O. Voelker Terry Feb 27, 2012 1:00 PM   Empty steel drum on the beach with no markings. Watched the Park Ranger drive by and pick it up after he took pictures.   MORE  Terry Dec 12, 2011 3:00 PM   Clear, cold, and quiet on the beach today. The public beach entrance at about 72nd & Logan (40A) was re-graded recently and covered with crushed rock, making it much easier to walk down. At the same time, just north of this entrance, rip/rap was added to an oceanfront home's seawall.   MORE  Terry Sep 27, 2011 4:30 PM   Recent, large rockfall at north end of Roads End mile. Boulders the size of refrigerators.   MORE    Roads End rockfall    Description: Recent, large rockfall at north end of Roads End mile. Location: far north end of Roads End mile "the Point" Terry Sep 16, 2011 2:00 PM   Another brainless wonder climbing the Roads End headland cliff and graffiti vandalism of sea wall (see pics). I talked with the owner of the property who owns the sea wall. He's not a happy camper and has called the sheriff regarding the problem. All the graffiti on his sea wall has occurred during the past year. Hopefully, winter waves will scrub the wall clean.   MORE    Roads End graffiti    Description: This guy's sea wall has become a target for vandalism. Location: next to 72nd/73rd street beach entrance Roads End cliff climber    Description: a young man climbing around on top of Roads End headland cliff Location: north end of Roads End mile "the Point" Terry May 9, 2011 2:00 PM   Group of people at water's edge dancing to the sound of a conga player and another drummer. Also, the stone totems are multiplying. One very decayed baby sea lion(?) at north end of beach.   MORE    stone totems    Description: someone's been busy Location: north end of Roads End beach Terry Mar 25, 2011 2:30 PM   Spring break and the beach is crowded. Ranger Woody was on the beach in his truck. He had just shoo'd away some people climbing The Point, an ongoing problem. He said warning sign not likely. Will touch base with Jim Kusz with N. Lincoln Fire/Rescue regarding problem. About a half dozen more rockslides this winter at north end of mile, ranging from just a tree uprooted to several dump truck loads of debris.   MORE  TerryH Dec 13, 2010 2:30 PM   Lethargic, young seal at far north end of Roads End mile 245. Eyes appeared cloudy. Filed Marine Mammal report. Per Jim Rice, "this is a young elephant seal. It's late in the season to see one ashore to molt, but that's likely what it's doing." Update 12/16: Checked on seal and it appears to be dying. No sign of injury. Notified Jim.   MORE    Roads End seal    Description: Alive but lethargic seal Location: far north end of Roads End mile, near the Point Terry Nov 16, 2010 3:30 PM   One old sea lion carcass that's been on the beach at least 3 weeks, located north end of mile at about 76th street. A couple large piles of kelp. The calm before the next big storm.   MORE  Terry Nov 10, 2010 11:30 AM   Walked most of my mile this morning and noted 10 dead murre, 6 dead fulmars, 2 dead oystercatchers, 1 murre struggling in the surf and 1 murre resting at the 72nd street entrance to the beach. Unable to walk to north end of mile due to incoming tide.   MORE  Lvoelker Oct 10, 2010 4:30 PM   After the pounding, huge surf that accompanied the early weekend storm there were many reports of stranded birds on the beaches. Mile 245 was littered with carcasses and plastic pellets.   MORE  Terry Aug 30, 2010 1:00 PM   Only concern is the continued digging into the sandstone cliff at Roads End State Park. Saw a woman with her child on a leash but not her 2 big dogs. A sea lion and a harbor seal carcass were buried a week ago.   MORE  Terry Aug 17, 2010 1:00 PM   Witnessed several people climbing to the top of "The Point" at the north end of Roads End beach. This has been an area of concern all year with a significant rise in the number of people climbing said cliff. On July 5th, rescue personnel spent nearly 4 hours rescuing 3 people from this same cliff. I have put in a request for a warning sign to be installed at the north end of Roads End beach. My request went to David Woody with State Parks and Jim Kusz with North Lincoln Fire and Rescue.   MORE  Terry Jul 6, 2010 1:30 PM   Sunbathers under active rock slide area at The Point an ongoing problem. Approached one group of people and found myself talking with KATU news and North Lincoln County Fire Lt. Jim Kusz who were covering the cliff rescue from the night before. As I warned them of the dangers of being under such an active slide area, rocks came tumbling down. They moved. Talked with Jim about cliff climbing problem and agreed a warning sign should be installed. While we were talking, a car came driving down the beach to pick up camping equipment left behind. Went to "greet" them and informed them that overnight camping on the beach, as well as driving on the beach, are both illegal.    MORE    Roads End slide area    Description: slide area at north end of Roads End beach where cliff rescue occurred the night before Location: north end of Roads End beach at "the Point" Lvoelker Jun 16, 2010 10:00 AM   Fabulous day at the tidepools at Road's End. Found several nudibranchs: an alabaster, a leopard, a red gilled, and five opalescent. Two of the opalescents were curled up in the seaweed at the edge of the pool, all the others were actively feeding. Sand is low exposing alot of rocks and pools. Some agates, and agate hunters. First time I've ever seen an oystercatcher working the beach much less within 100 feet of a human. Guillimots were pretty active on the nearshore rocky outcroppings in the first cove. Found a huge round bumper, white with the letter B on the sides (2) and a five or six digit letter/number code across the top. Left it at the north access for someone who loves having beach flotsam in their yard. Some false seapalm on the beach along with lots of plastic pieces (again!)   MORE  Terry Jun 3, 2010 10:30 AM   Three dead fish on north end of Roads End Mile 245. A couple pics attached.   MORE    dead fish1    Description: dead fish about 18" in length Location: north end of Roads End Mile 245 dead fish2    Description: dead fish about 3' in length, Pacific Hake? Location: north end of Roads End Mile 245 Terry May 11, 2010 1:00 PM   Increasing problem with young men climbing the large basalt headland at the north end of Roads End beach. Two other Coast Watchers have also noticed the problem. They climb up the loose gravelly side to the right of it and continue upward to the top, about 75 ft up. I remind the offenders of how dangerous it is as well as the fact that they are breaking the law but I only get harassed in return (not surprising). On March 26th I noted 3 young men climbing the headland. All were climbing in only their shorts. No shirts, no shoes. One of them had apparently fallen because he passed me on the beach very scraped up, blood dripping from his fingertips. I called 911 that day. Recently contacted Beach Ranger Dave Woody regarding problem. He said, "It appears that the property is privately owned and the issue is a matter of trespassing. The land owner would be the one to post the area for no trespassing. The Lincoln City beaches are lined with very high banks and cliffs that people like to climb and dig into, and even though it is not in my jurisdiction to cite or warn people of the rules concerning this activity I do try to warn them and ask them to come down as a matter of safety and common sense. I have in the past spotted people climbing in the area you mentioned. I usually sit on the beach and watch them in order to call for help when they get stuck or hurt. Luckily for me no one has fallen or got hurt while I was watching. Usually when they see me watching they start climbing down. I make a point of letting them know that it really is not safe to do that and please do not do it in the future." The Roads End headland, including The Point, is federally owned and probably managed by the US Forest Service.   MORE  Lvoelker May 2, 2010 3:00 PM   Why is so much plastic continuing to wash up on this beach as never before?   MORE  Terry Apr 27, 2010 5:00 PM   A seawall is being repaired at beachfront home 7207 NW Logan. Vehicles driving on the beach to get the work done. Contacted Tony Stein with the Parks Dept to confirm all permits were in place and he said they were.   MORE  Terry Apr 21, 2010 3:00 PM   Quiet windy day on the beach today. Not many people. The fawn carcass at The Point is down to the bones thanks to the turkey vultures and bald eagles. They had been feeding on it the past week. Also, another small tree lost it's hold on cliffs near The Point.   MORE    Roads End, Lincoln County    Description: Aerial photo of Roads End, about the year 2000, with Cascade Head in the background Location: Roads End, Lincoln County Lvoelker Apr 11, 2010 2:00 PM   Not as much small debris but still a great quantity and an amazing array of large debris including, but not limited to: car fender, 10 gallon gasoline container, dozens of either 6 inch or 10 inch lengths of either black or gray rubber "tubing" (not your standard tubing, I 'm not familiar with this material, it has a thick wall), large pieces of a dense styrofoam type of material, dozens of the big liter bottles and lots of bits of frayed polypro lines. Just met Walter Munk. I asked for his advice, if he had one piece of advice for humanity what would it be, "Be careful what you put in the ocean." Telling. There was also a dead fawn whose haunches, and only the haunches had both been eaten.    MORE  Lvoelker Mar 14, 2010 11:30 AM   Beautiful day, tide coming in, with many people walking the beach. Despite the high number of dogs, for the first time it seems like all the owners were picking up! Again, so much plastic. I picked up a garbage bag full of large bits: bottles, bottle caps, line, tubing, sandals, sieves, parts of buckets, oval foam fish floats (blue and cream, about 7x4x1") and glass bottles. Again, the beach was strewn with millions of bits of plastic. A tourist remarked: "It's just getting worse, isn't it?" Another had picked up two very large, blue containers, one a rectangular box looking like a gas can. And so I thought: If we, as a society, can dispense "doggie bags" at beach entry points, why not have a dispenser with Solve bags for picking up trash?   MORE  Lvoelker Jan 23, 2010 8:30 AM   Approximately 2.8 MILLION bits of plastic on a 1/8 mile stretch of beach.   MORE  Terry Jan 20, 2010 9:30 AM   Seems like a lot more pulverized plastics are showing up on the beach in Roads End this winter.   MORE    plastic garbage on Roads End beach    Description: lots of plastic bits on beach this winter Location: north end of Roads End beach Terry Dec 11, 2009 3:30 PM   Noticed 6 dead squid. They all looked like the one in the picture. About 3-4 ft in length.   MORE    Squid on Roads End beach    Description: about 6 of them on the beach Location: near north end of mile 245 Lvoelker Nov 14, 2009 1:00 PM   One recent major slide involving a large shorepine at the north end of the beach near the headland adjacent to the last waterfall. Very fresh, must have been recent. A large quantity of rock and soil. Another slippage of vegetated foredune next to last year's slippage, about 150 yards north of the last beach house.   MORE    MIle 245 Slide    Location: About three hundred yards south of end of mile 245 Copyright: Lisa O. Voelker 245 Headland    Copyright: Lisa O. Voelker Terry Nov 6, 2009 9:30 PM   And so it's around 9:30 Friday night and I had just gone around and turned all the lights out so I could watch the lightning. A few homes on the beach had their powerful floodlights directed at the ocean. I'm sitting on my sofa with cat in lap when I say to myself, "What the heck is that?!" In the glow of those powerful floodlights I see a large, white, vertical cloud moving from south to north along the beach. It comes ashore just a few blocks from my house! I can see the trees over there just whipping but my trees are quite still. Then, the transformer blows and all the power goes out in Roads End. When the lightning lit up the sky again, I could see chaos to the north of me. It didn't take me long to figure out that a waterspout had just come onshore. I took a look at the damage on Sunday and it is substantial. The tornado looks to have skipped around the neighborhood, hitting a house here and there, uprooting trees, breaking windows. The damage was on 74th street. I am on 70th street. Yep, it hit a little too close to home!    MORE    Roads End tornado damage    Description: Roads End tornado damage Location: 74th and Logan Date: Nov 8, 2009 12:00 AM Roads End tornado damage    Description: Roads End tornado damage Location: 74th and Logan Date: Nov 8, 2009 12:00 AM Roads End tornado damage    Description: Roads End tornado damage Location: 73rd and Logan Date: Nov 8, 2009 12:00 AM Terry Oct 24, 2009 11:30 AM   I noticed an unusual amount of fluffy green foam a week ago but I have not noticed many dead birds on the beach. Today, the mounds of green foam are gone and I only spotted 1 dead comorant and 1 dead fulmar. Of note, I'm seeing more and more plastic bags with dog poo in them. Go figure.....   MORE  Terry Oct 5, 2009 3:30 PM   Newly arrived dead sea lion of about 5 feet in length and quite furry. No obvious signs of injury. North end of Roads End mile. Nearest cross streets: Logan and 76th Talked with Jim Rice and emailed him the photo.   MORE    dead sea lion Roads End    Description: Newly arrived dead sea lion, about 5 ft in length and quite furry. Location: north end, nearest cross streets: Logan and 76th Terry Sep 17, 2009 2:30 PM   Gorgeous September afternoon on the beach. Much micro algae washing in, turning the sand green. More immature graffiti on the Roads End Headland (The Point). Also, a very decayed sea lion carcass near The Point. Came upon a couple kids playing in the caves dug into the side of the bluff at Roads End State Park. Explained the danger to them. Their parents seemed quite indifferent.   MORE  Terry Jul 17, 2009 2:00 PM   Over the 4th of July weekend, graffiti appeared on the Roads End point, north end of mile 245. See 1st picture. 2nd picture is from Sept. 2008, at about 74th St. on Roads End mile. Anyone else having a similar problem on their mile?   MORE    Graffiti at point on Roads End mile    Description: Graffiti appeared at the Point over 4th of July weekend Location: north end of Roads End mile 245, at the Point Roads End graffiti    Description: Roads End graffiti from September 2008 Location: at about 74th street Date: Sep 17, 2008 2:00 PM Terry Jun 17, 2009 3:30 PM   There was a very decayed sea lion corpse at the far north end of mile 245 (at the point) with a half dozen turkey vultures standing guard. Also, lots of sand with a large lagoon that has developed, deep enough to swim in. Lagoon runs from about 73rd Street north several blocks.   MORE  Terry May 14, 2009 1:45 PM   Found banded dead Cormorant on Roads End beach. There were 3 bands attached to the wing. All were plastic: black, blue, purple. Contacted Roy Lowe and Robert Loeffel via email. Pics attached. Per Roy, "The plastic wire ties on this bird were placed there By a COAAST volunteer as part of their study to see how low carcasses persist on the beach. These type of marking do not need to be reported and unfortunately many people remove these birds from the beach and bring them to us to report them. I knew when COAAST started this project this would happen. We appreciate and I don't want to discourage you from reporting things like this if there is any confusion. The true marking of most live birds is with individually numbered leg bands and often also numbered color leg bands. If you ever do find birds with these please photograph and retain the bird and bands and report them to me as we can obtain the data on each bird."   MORE    banded Cormorant    Description: banded Cormorant on Roads End beach Location: closest cross streets: 68th and Logan banded Cormorant    Description: banded Cormorant on Roads End beach Location: closest cross streets: 68th and Logan Terry May 3, 2009 1:00 PM   Stranded brown pelican on Roads End beach, north end. Seemed to be sick or injured. Called Oregon State Patrol who said pelican had already been reported. pic attached   MORE    stranded pelican    Description: stranded brown pelican on Roads End beach, seemed to be sick or injured, Oregon State Patrol aware Location: Roads End beach, about 76th and Logan Terry Mar 18, 2009 1:00 PM   Nice day on the beach. Talked with a man panning for gold in the stream just below Roads End Park. He said he has found gold there before. Also, a professional kite flyer was practicing He was very good. And, another old beach house gets demolished. See attached pic.   MORE    Roads End beach house demolition    Description: Another old beach house getting torn down, making way for a new one. Location: 6937 NW Logan, Roads End Lvoelker Jan 24, 2009 3:00 PM   Last report I was focused on the large number of stranded jellies and completely missed what was behind me: a very large landslide approx 600 yds north of the last house along the beach and directly under the very last house in Roads End. Trees, fern, and other plants are intact at the edge of the bluff. The bluffs are eroded, undermining the ridge.   MORE  Lvoelker Jan 17, 2009 10:00 AM   This winter's erosion of the uplifted basalt near the end of 245 is interesting in the effect: usually the cliff is fairly smooth, now there are spines and depressions. The bridge between the basalt and the igneous outcropping has further eroded; it may not be more than another two or three years when the rock will stand separate from the basalt from the midpoint up. The jellies were obviously only just stranded. I put a few in tidepools but they only sank to the bottom. What's the general wisdom on this type of stranding? Leave them, put them in tidepools, put them in the surfline?    MORE    Igneous - 245    Description: Uplifted basalt cliff face north end of mi 245 Location: The very end of the beach at Roads End, Lincoln City, OR End of 245    Description: Igneous outcropping at end of Roads End beach Location: North end of mile 245 at Road's End, Lincoln City, OR Copyright: c2009 Lisa Voelker Terry Jan 3, 2009 11:00 AM   Dramatic effects of recent heavy rain, including a landslide (pic attached). Contacted property owner regarding landslide. Also, very decayed sea lion (pic attached)   MORE    landslide on beach    Description: landslide, contacted property owners Location: north end of mile 245, Morden property dead sea lion    Description: very decayed sea lion Location: on beach directly below 70th street Terry Nov 18, 2008 1:00 PM   Dead starfish, perhaps a hundred of them on a short stretch (150 feet?) of sandy beach. The seagulls were feeding on them. Pics attached.   MORE    Dead starfish - Roads End    Description: Perhaps a hundred dead starfish on a short stretch of sandy beach (150 feet?). The seagulls were feeding on them. Location: northern portion of Roads End Mile 245 Dead Starfish - Roads End    Description: Perhaps a hundred dead starfish on a short stretch of sandy beach (150 ft?). The seagulls were feeding on them. Location: northern portion of Roads End mile 245 Lvoelker Sep 20, 2008 5:00 PM   I was especially surprised to find, for the first time, a dead beaver, much less such a large beaver. The cliff continues to erode. I think we will be able to witness the isolation of the headland rock from the uplifted basalt cliffs within my lifetime. The beach seems barren: there's so few birds, shoreline, raptors, woodland.   MORE  Terry Sep 14, 2008 5:00 PM   Only walked north half of Roads End mile and found dead beaver at "the Point"   MORE    dead beaver    Description: At first, I thought it was a sea otter but when I got closer I noticed the flat, paddle-shaped tail. It's a beaver. Location: far north end of Roads End mile 245, at "the Point" Terry Sep 3, 2008 2:00 PM   Quite a few dead murres, including one with net around it's neck (see pic). The 2 sea lion carcasses reported earlier have been buried, thanks to the Parks Dept? The cave diggers are back at work on the bluff at the Roads End Wayside (see pic). Contacted Ranger Dave Woody about installing a new warning sign at bluff. Other than that, beautiful day to be on the beach.   MORE    dead murre with netting    Description: Found on 8/28, picture is of a dead murre with netting wrapped around it's neck. Hard to tell if the netting caused it's demise or if it just got caught up in the netting after it died. Location: north end of mile 245 Date: Aug 28, 2008 2:00 PM Caves at Roads End Wayside bluff    Description: the cave diggers are back at work on the bluff at the Roads End Wayside Location: bluff at Roads End Wayside Lvoelker Sep 1, 2008 7:00 PM   The scrubbed-clean cliffs of winter (through June) have now transformed to the heavily scree-skirted cliffs. A large chunk of the rocky point fell about three weeks ago. More of the vegetated area crowning the cliffs is sliding down hill.   MORE  Terry Aug 22, 2008 1:00 PM   Only had time to walk north half of Roads End mile. Found the 2 dead sea lions (pics attached) and reported to Jim Rice and Sheridan Jones. Stopped a pickup truck on beach towing trailer with jet ski. They showed permit to be on beach and were rescuing a "dead jet ski" in the water. Picked up more broken glass.   MORE    Dead Sea Lion #1 - Roads End    Description: dead sea lion, badly beat up, no tags Location: north end of mile 245, just below end of houses Dead Sea Lion #2 - Roads End    Description: dead sea lion, badly beat up, no tags Location: far north end of mile 245, at "the point" Lvoelker Jul 13, 2008 10:00 AM   The erosion of the area near the headland continues.   MORE  Terry Jun 12, 2008 1:30 PM   Windswept beach but enough litter to be an eyesore. Picked up some jagged broken glass. The caves dug into the bluff at the Roads End Wayside have been filled in. "Thanks" to whoever did that!   MORE  Lvoelker May 25, 2008 5:00 PM   Continued/ongoing erosion of the bluff near the north end of this mile. I'm keeping a six monh photo journal of this headland.   MORE  Lvoelker Mar 16, 2008 11:00 AM   Lots of shredded/pulverized plastic debris in the surf line for the past three weeks.   MORE  Terry Feb 26, 2008 11:00 AM   Oceanfront home had a speaker aimed at the beach and was broadcasting the loud screeches and chatter of birds. It was not only annoying for those walking the beach but it was driving the wild birds nuts. If it's an attempt to keep birds away from their house, it's not working. Seagulls, pigeons, crows, etc. were all flying up to the speaker. Reported problem to the sheriff who said there's not much he could do about it, if it's during the daytime. Am I correct in thinking that a problem such as this could be termed "wildlife harrassment"?   MORE  knickerson Feb 25, 2008 10:30 AM   It was a beautiful day at the beach! There seemed to be an unusually large amount of small plastic pieces in the wrack line - especially at the south end of mile 245. The speaker system on the house near the north end of Roads End was very annoying and I'm assuming set up to keep gulls away from the home.   MORE  Terry Dec 10, 2007 4:00 PM   There's still a lot of pulverized garbage from the big storm a week prior. No doubt a lot of it came down the rivers. Shoreline/bluff looks good, considering the battering it took. Only a couple large riprap rocks were knocked out of place. No sign of improvement regarding caves dug in bluff at Roads End Wayside.   MORE  Lvoelker Oct 21, 2007 1:00 PM   Dozens of uprooted sea palm and bull kelp -- LARGE specimens of sea palms, 16-20" tall. The sand movement is very early this year -- lots of exposed rock.   MORE  Terry Sep 20, 2007 11:00 AM   Only concern is with the caves dug into the bluff at the Roads End Wayside. They have gotten deeper over the summer. Reported problem to the State Parks department. Dave Woody said he'd follow up.   MORE  The Druid Sep 8, 2007 2:00 PM   A bright sunny day, with strong wind ...good for surfing and kite surfing...about 10 surfers. One large telescopic type instrument on shore...camera or spyglass type pointed toward ocean. All dogs leashed or well behaved./ Clean, clean beach.   MORE  The Druid Jun 17, 2007 10:00 AM   Few birds, a couple crows and seagulls. Large gatherings of people, such as family reunions and a group of young people clustered together. At first I thought it was a religious meet, but recognized a local doctor and saw markings for a wild game of Frisbee or some team sport with a Frisbee. Few dogs, all maintained by owners. There was a small fire at the south end and when I returned I found it was in the remains of what was a huge log shelter from last summer. An "art form" had been created that looked like a beached whale from a distance. I had to inspect to see just what it was. An art by someone.   MORE  Terry Jun 15, 2007 1:00 PM   Beach was quite clean. Only sign of Velella velella (blue jellies) was during 2nd half of May. Very few washed ashore. Bluff digging still going on at Roads End Wayside. Warning sign is gone.   MORE  Terry Mar 21, 2007 11:30 AM   Fairly clean beach. I saw no dead birds or mammals. Biggest concern is the continued digging of caves in bluff at Roads End Wayside. Very curious about a small section of beach that was void of all sand from about January into February. Seemed to be due to waves coming in at an angle. Sand is back now. Section of beach was between 68th and 70th streets.   MORE  knickerson Mar 4, 2007 3:30 PM   Lots of activity due to mild, sunny afternoon weather. Several carcasses were drawing a lot of interest from beachgoers. Called OSP to report. Noticed an unusual amount of small-size debris (mostly plastic) over entire beach area. Small driftwood fire was left burning.   MORE    Dead Seal    Description: Photo of seal at Roads End State Park, Mile 245 Location: Roads End State Park Beach Date: Mar 4, 2007 12:00 AM Horned Puffin    Description: Horned Puffin at Roads End State Park - incorrectly identified as a Juvenile Tufted Puffin on chalkboard Location: high-tide, 1/2 mile N of parking lot Date: Mar 4, 2007 12:00 AM Hailey Feb 25, 2007 8:00 AM   Not a whole lot going on. The rain tends to keep a lot of people off of the beach at this time of the year. 3 stranded/dead animals found and a call was made to authority each time. I notice a lot of erosion at the cliff side of the Roads End State Park. Concern about the people who have dug holes into the side of the cliffs. I feel that it is very unstable and could come down and hurt children if they should start digging/playing in that area.   MORE  The Druid Feb 8, 2007 12:00 AM   My visiting son, Mark and I walked Mile 245 today....very pleasant weather day, no wind. There were about 10 walkers, 2 dogs. Large driftwood logs on South end of mile....lots of mussel shells on North end of Mile. Clean beach as it was close to high tide. No sign of possible lumber, reported to have been washing in to our shores. Why I mention I was with my son: to verify that we saw, 4 teen age girls and one young man, all in bikini swim suits racing down and taking a swim in the ocean. Not just a dip -- they were in as far as they could go -- on Feb. 8, no less!   MORE