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CoastWatch Mile 43 County Curry Description Beach south of Humbug Mountain Boundaries N 42° 39.731', W 124° 25.12' to N 42° 38.901', W 124° 24.609' Google Maps Nearby Roads, Directions to/from, Google photos, Satellite image, Terrain overlay OPRD Map Humbug Mountain, Arizona Beach, Devilīs Backbone (1) Vehicles • Motor vehicles are prohibited from Rocky Point (42° 43.3812', Mile 47) southerly to the north end of Arizona Beach (42° 37.1754', Mile 41). Weather Current Weather Conditions at nearby stations (may take a minute or two on a dialup connection) Tides NOAA Tide Tables for 2010200920082007200620052004   at Columbia River entrance (N. Jetty)Seaside, 12th Avenue bridge, Necanicum RiverNehalemNehalem River, BrightonTillamook, Hoquarten SloughBay CityMiami CoveGaribaldiTillamook, BarviewNetarts, Netarts BayNestucca Bay entranceKernville, Siletz RiverTaft, Siletz BayDepoe BayToledoWinantYaquinaSouthbeachNewportYaquina BarDrift Creek, Alsea RiverWaldport, Alsea BayFlorenceSiuslaw EntranceReedsport, docksGardinerCoos Bay EntranceCoos Bay, docksEmpireCharlestonBandon, Coquille RiverPort OrfordWedderburn, Rogue RiverBrookings, Chetco CoveCrescent City   GO  Photo Mile 43 from the North 06/30/09   6/22/09 Mile 43 from the North 06/30/09 Dale Lee

7 REPORTS FOR MILE 43: Jul 15, 2010 Dale Lee    EMAIL  Walked mile on July 13 to find an unusual amount of debris. Most significant was a full, 55-gallon barrel marked "marine oil." There were two other 5-gallon sealed cans of mulitgrade oil nearby. State Parks, CoastWatch and the Coast Guard were contacted, and the Coast Guard hired NWFF environmental services to handle this. After opening the drum and determining it was full of oil, four employees removed it from the beach in 5 gallon buckets with lids. The job was completed about 3:30 pm today, July 15.   MORE    Photo of Mile 43    Description: Photo of Mile 43 Coast Gurad Contractor Crew    Description: Photo of the Contractor Crew Hired by the U.S. Coast Guard to remove oil filled containers from Mile 43 Oil Filled barrel    Description: Photo of the oil filled barrel on the beach at Mile 43 Jun 22, 2009 Dale Lee    EMAIL  Sand movement from season to season, and year to year is always a draw of interest. Today with the am minus tide, the beach seemed especially flat and easy to walk. The grain size of the surface sand has sorted finer and is much firmer than most times of the year. Summer beach vs winter beach is easy to notice, but recently in the past few years I have noticed also the sand tends to move south in the winter and back in the summer. The recent south swell through the first three weeks of June seemed to cancel some of the typical n/ a movement, and sorting. A couple botany notes for the record: during the past decade the community of Hawk's Primrose has steadily increased on the northeast portion of my mile. Futher uphill larger numbers of Brodia coronaria var. macropoda are currently in bloom.(I'm told Brodia has been changed to Triteleia if anyone cares) the group are native onion like plants that I find mostly on very dry ground. This one on my mile is very locally abundant but I have not run across it elsewhere.   MORE    Mile 43 from the North 06/30/09    Description: Mile 43 from the North 06/30/09 Mile 43 from the South 06/30/09    Description: Mile 43 from the South 06/30/09 Date: Jun 22, 2009 12:00 AM Mar 13, 2009 Dale Lee    EMAIL  Foam pellets always bother me. Does anyone have a good way to remove them from the beach? They are often mixed with small woody debris on my mile. There was none of the forest duff that concentrated at Crook Point, but the event did leave lots of new driftwood especially on the rocky portion of mile 43. It was medium sized, averaging around an 8 foot 2x4, but few pieces I would call saw logs. There was also lots of sand for this time of year. Often large piles of seaweed are present now, but evidently it landed elsewhere this year. This new medium woody drift was also void of plastic litter for the most part. There was some crab gear which is normal this time of the year, and the artifact of interest was an intact coconut. I never did really like the, 'have your cake and eat it too' chestnut, but it seems to apply here.   MORE  Dec 20, 2008 Dale Lee    EMAIL  What a nice break in the weather, and break in the breakers for a walk on mile 43. This beach is coarse dark sand, but wrapped by bedrock cliffs, so it can be quite dangerous this time of the year when the swell is high, even during low tide. Today the swell was amazingly small, probably 2 feet or less. The water was clear, and a steel blue grey color. Some loose seaweed seemed to be in the water. This was quite a change from the summer muck, that was especially thick this year. The profile of the beach was steep. and as much as ten feet of sand has moved offshore for the winter. It was fairly flat during the fall. The two mico emerging dunes on the north end of the beach have both seen erosion. The larger dune that is mostly inhabited by European beach grass, has become smaller the past few year, being eroded on the west, and larger shurbs are becoming established on the east. Native beach grass is starting to get established on the south of the overflow for the first time I am aware of.   MORE  Apr 24, 2008 Dale Lee    EMAIL  Accessing mile 43 requires a 10-15 minute walk down a moderate slope on an informal game trail. With the rapidly growing vegatation, spring is the season where the trail goes from being the easiest to follow, to being the most challenging to follow. The ocean was fairly clear, blue green in color, and there was lots of young seaweed in the water. The seaweed was not espcially floating or on the bottom, but seemed to have netural bouyancy. Some seaweed was present in the high tide driftline, along with numerous foam pellets. Are the pellets from sea or locally uncovered and being redistributed? Many recent international items were present, including a few water bottles with asian characters on the lables, which I found interesting.   MORE  Sep 15, 2007 Dale Lee    EMAIL  Mile 43 is directly south of Humbug Mountain. The mountain often intensifies NW wind,similar to standing on the top of a windy bluff. When the wind is from the NE like on Saturday, the beach is protected, and the light breeze from inland can be quite warm. Waves were about 3,4 feet, the ocean was very blue, and the water was clear. A whale was swimming near by for most of the walk. Of interest, the beach was covered with bear and cub tracks, but I did not see them. Also the resident Vultures seem to now recognize me as an individual and let me approach quite close. Hopefully this new social interest will not include any dining. It was beach clean up day, and of concern is always foam in various stages of disinigration. I can never get it all, and there seems to be a lot more tiny stuff in the winter and spring. Also there were over 50 water bottles in the one mile of beach, and I hope the deposit slated for 2009 will reduce this more recent occurence. Although there have been no real storms, erosion of the summer beach that has built up is underway, and the beach from west to east is much smaller than is was in July.   MORE  Jun 14, 2007 Dale Lee    EMAIL  Interesting flatsum for late in the year. Japanese containers present. I also wanted to report a metal 55 gallon barrel that is sealed, and appears to contain some liquid. I realize this could be a small amount of ocean water. No leaks are visable. Barrel is located 100-200 yards north of where the sand portion of beach 43 ends.   MORE