Mile 21 Report
July 25, 2021
by PaulSherman
Other Mile 21 Reports (13)
2022
September 11, 2022 - PaulSherman
I saw 2 coyotes, 1 grey fox, and 5 brown pelicans, in addition to many western gulls.
2020
July 23, 2020 - PaulSherman
No violations or unusual environmental damage noted. Healthy sea star population and flock of brown pelicans observed.
May 8, 2020 - PaulSherman
All was well on Mile 21 in the early morning of 8 May on a very low tide (-1.5). An apparently orphaned Harbor Seal pup was observed on the beach in the cove at the southernmost end of Mile 21. It...
January 30, 2020 - PaulSherman
2019
October 27, 2019 - PaulSherman
It was a beautiful sunny, warm windy day. I walked south along the beach all the way to the massive rocks at the boundary of the USFWS refuge at Crook Point. The tide was low (-0.4) and the exposed...
2014
May 3, 2014 - PaulSherman
The starfish we had seen dead and washed-up near pistol river / ocean coast line had disappeared --probably washed back into sea.As we walked mile 21, we observed hundreds of mole crab exuviae!...
April 18, 2014 - PaulSherman
Mrs. Peregrine Strikes AgainUpon our arrival, we observed the resident Peregrine pair on the dunes just adjacent to the Pistol River mouth. The male had just arrived, scaring up about 20 gulls...
April 5, 2014 - PaulSherman
The migratory eagles we observed over the Pistol River did appear to bother gulls that typically bath in the Pistol river estuary. We saw three to four harbor seals in the river confluence with the...
March 7, 2014 - PaulSherman
We came upon the widened mouth of the Pistol River after many days of rain, and saw the area strangely absent of bathing gulls. Three Ravens were hawking, and a Peregrine dive bombed them then landed...
January 17, 2014 - PaulSherman
We removed a minor amount of washed up "Oregon" debris and left a rubber tire that had washed up near end of mi 21-20 (rolled up to sand dune base). American made, Kelly Titanium, size R275-16We...
January 4, 2014 - Bob Ivey
Did some additional research about the area. There is a proposal for a golf couse which would include beach access farther down the coast, where was once a commercial salmon hatchery operated,...
2009
July 1, 2009 - Don Hayes
A pleasant day for a beach walk, run, swim, stretch, and report including 70 photo study. Nothing unusual to note except no one on entire beach or in lot and small seal seeming not in best of health...
2007
August 22, 2007 - Don Hayes
I visually scan the entire coast mile daily and walk, run, and swim there regularily. Also I make photos from time to time. I do see an occassional dead bird or seal as well as plastic drifting in....