Mile 214 Report
January 12, 2009
The morning was sunny, and the beach was relatively clean but for numerous beverage lids in one area.
Report Details
The morning was sunny, and the beach was relatively clean but for numerous beverage lids in one area. The sand has drifted towards the shore and built up towards the vegetation line.
Conditions
Temperature: 50 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Wind Direction: N. Tide Level: 8.0 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 20. Number of dogs: 9. Walking or running: 8. Surfing: 12. More surfers (about 12) than we had ever noticed previously.
Vehicles
Driftline Content
Land-based debris (picnics, etc.). Many coffee cup lids, etc., but not much trash overall
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Unleashed dog chasing feeding shorebirds, and insufficient campaign to educate beach-goers to prevent this.
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