May 23, 2017

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I walked this mile in the early morning hours and only saw two people.  Tide was low, but incoming.  Light breeze and moderate inversion layer.  This shoreline is surprisingly free of litter.  Micro plastics may be found if one sifts through the sand.  The shoreline from Yachats SP to about 7th St is strewn with small to very large drifft wood and logs all the way up to the edge of the bluff.  This is standard.  Very little to note along the drift line.  Small pieces of wood, rocks, algae and kelp, along with a few small crab and worm castings.  I saw the usual western gulls, cormorants, vultures, brown pelicans flying by, flocks of geese, crow, a resting seal and a dead sea lion.  I only observed one small sea star clinging precariously to a wall of mussels.  Abundant giant green anemones and gooseneck barnacles.  Smelt Sands area had a small amount of litter and evidence of a couple of campfires.  The people I saw were in this area and I observed much less wildlife in this area than in the first section of this mile.  I took some pics of bluff erosion in Yachats State Park area in order to document what it looks like today.  Two sections of fence are dangling off the bluff.