Mile 178 Report
May 31, 2009
by Brien M
Other Mile 178 Reports (23)
2016
April 1, 2016 - Brien M
This is my end-of-quarter report for the first quarter of this year. It coincides well with the annual Spring beach clean-up that took place on the last Saturday of March. My daughter and I picked up...
January 1, 2016 - Brien M
It was New Year's Day morning, and no better way to begin 2016 than a visit to my beach! As expected, I noticed lots of landslide/erosion damage from the extreme weather we had in December. What took...
2015
November 26, 2015 - Brien M
It was Thanksgiving morning 2015. I went to my beach to get photos of king tide at precisely high tide. Because my beach is nearly submerged during events like this, I was very limited as to a...
September 19, 2015 - Brien M
It was the annual Great Oregon Fall Beach Clean-up event today. I knew there was going to be lots of debris to pick up, so I brought along my daughter and another helper. Debris was the usual garbage...
2014
September 27, 2014 - Brien M
The annual Fall beach clean-up was today, and weather conditions could not have been better. I filled all three of my SOLV bags, plus an arm full of loose, larger items. Afterward, I was still in "...
August 24, 2014 - Brien M
My coast mile has many areas that can only be accessed by water. I have done it that way before, but given it's difficulty, I decided to study my mile from a whole different point of view. I...
August 16, 2014 - Brien M
It was a very comfortable Saturday morning low tide. Warm, with light cloud cover. I was able to do a follow-up survey on the sea stars that live on the off-shore rocks. And sadly, SSWS was very...
May 31, 2014 - Brien M
It was a minus tide, and it allowed me to observe the invertebrates living on the "off-shore" rocks. There was a huge presence of purple shore crabs climbing about on every boulder. They were hard to...
March 22, 2014 - Brien M
It was an awesome morning on the Oregon Coast for the annual Spring beach clean-up. There was lots of garbage on Cape Cove beach. I got a head start on the clean-up last weekend by hauling out two...
2010
February 12, 2010 - Brien M
It is early 2010, and I can now access my beach, because the sea lion invasion is over. The sea lions left lots of evidence about their presence, and it was not pretty. There were six dead sea lions...
2009
December 2, 2009 - Brien M
It's New Years Day 2014, and I am finally back on the cyberspace grid! I've resolved to get caught up on my mile reports. I am gonna start by going back about four years. Mile 178 was making...
December 1, 2009 - Foggy
As previously reported by FriendOfStrawberry on November 14, there's a huge collection of sea lions on the secluded beach just north of Sea Lion Caves. A Eugene Register Guard article on December 1...
November 14, 2009 - FriendofStrawberry
There is an overlook between Sea Lion Caves and north to the tunnel where a number of cars can park and look north to see Heceta Head Lighthouse. Today about 12:30 pm we saw thousands of California...
September 22, 2009 - Brien M
Hey folks, I am still trying to play "catch up" with my mile reports. This one goes back to fall of 2009, just before the famous sea lion invasion. It was Fall Beach clean-up, and my daughter and I...
March 28, 2009 - Brien M
It was beach clean-up day on the Oregon Coast, and as usual, it was held in tandem with the "Whale Watching Spoken Here" event, of which one viewing location is along mile 178. When I checked with...
March 20, 2009 - Brien M
On my visit to the beach today I found one thing to be most out of the ordinary, it was the complete lack of sea lions. There were none to be seen on the rocks or in the water. Typically, there is a...
February 28, 2009 - Brien M
I had all kinds of weather on this visit. Shoreline wildlife was scarce. I had to travel as far South as Sea Lion Point to encounter any sea lions; they used to be so thick on Cape Cove Beach that I...
January 18, 2009 - Brien M
The sea lions weren't so stingy with the beach today. Maybe it was the gorgeous weather. I was able to explore to the southernmost end of Cape Cove, a place I haven't been in a while, because the...
January 5, 2009 - Brien M
The beach was not as congested with sea lions as it has been in the past,so I had a little more beach to myself. There were about 40 or 50 of them on the rocks on the South end,so I had to stay away...
2008
December 21, 2008 - Brien M
For the past three months I have not been able to observe my entire beach because there have been from one to two hundred sea lions hanging out on the South end of Cape Cove. As everyone knows, it is...
March 29, 2008 - Brien M
Well it was Beach Clean-up day, so my daughter and I hit the beach with four trash bags in hand. We filled them all, quickly. It was the usual stuff: plastic bottles,styrofoam,fishing float fragments...
January 13, 2008 - Brien M
Given the proximity of this beach to Sea Lion Caves, there are numerous sea lions off shore and on the rocks. This concentration could also be the reason that more often times than not, I will...
2007
September 29, 2007 - Brien M
My daughter and I have been doing the beach clean-ups twice a year at this site since 1997. This is the first time I've reported here. The gist of this summary can be found on the previous three...