Visitor       Log In         Who We Are       Newsletters       Coastal Goods            Contact Us         Climate Cache         Tour of the Miles       CoastWatch Stories       Sightings       Watchful Eyes       CoastWatcher's Bookshelf       Coastwatcher's Knapsack       Filing a Mile Report:          Getting Started Online          Online Mile Report          Online Mile Dispatch          Paper Report form          Observation Checklist          Mile Reports Browser          Summaries by County       OPRD Planning Maps       Stranded Marine Mammal       CoastWatch counties:          Clatsop          Tillamook          Lincoln          Lane             Quarterlies          Douglas             Quarterlies          Coos             Quarterlies          Curry       Topics:          Estuaries          Navy Training          Port of Newport          SOLV Cleanup          Tsunami Debris         Gravel Mining Guide         The Wide, Wide Sea       Marine Reserves       Position: Marine Reserves       Position: Ocean Energy

MILE 245 on 4/11/10   -   LVOELKER LOCATION Lincoln  •  Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek CONDITIONS Sunday 2:00 PM  •  Cloudy  •  54° F  •  Wind: Calm/Light from the N HUMANS People: 27  •  Dogs: 5 ACTIVITIES Walking/running: 19  •  Playing in sand: 3  •  Sitting: 2  •  Kite - 3 CONCERNS Litter DISTURBANCES VEHICLES Cars/Trucks parking: 17 ACTIV.COMMENTS NOTABLE WILDLIFE DEAD BIRDS Total: 4  •  Species/names: Cormorants, all four were within a 20 yard area. STRANDED FISH & INVERTS DRIFTLINE Wood pieces  •  Plastic pellets  •  Ocean-based debris  •  Styrofoam Not as much small pulverized pieces but more larger pieces. NEW DEVELOPMENT MODIFICATIONS NATURAL CHANGES Newly exposed roots/trees falling COMMENTS SUMMARY 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. OBSERVER Lvoelker EMAIL   •  REPORT PUBLISHED 4/22/10 2:30 PM PHOTOS PRINTER-FRIENDLY ©2013 Oregon Shores •  CONTACT US