Mile 216 Report
August 8, 2009
A typical summer day on Nye Beach, with heavy visitation, but relatively little trash on the beach, marine or terrestrial in origin.
Report Details
A typical summer day on Nye Beach, with heavy visitation, but relatively little trash on the beach, marine or terrestrial in origin. The rustic cottages at the Viking's Motel are being replaced by condominiums. I twice stayed in these cottages as tourist in the early 1980s, before moving to Newport in 1987.A fishing boat, the F/V Lori Ann, ran aground north of the Nye Beach turnaround on August 11, 2009. See my mile dispatch for that date for details. Refloating it involved several pieces of heavy construction equipment, a tanker to remove fuel from the boat, and a helicopter to lift the boat up as a tugboat pulled it off the beach. This probably impacted the beach more than the stranding did.
Conditions
Temperature: 62 F. Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Wind Direction: SW. Tide Level: 2.6 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 138. Number of dogs: 13. Walking or running: 37. Playing in surf: 19. Playing in sand: 34. Sitting: 7. Photography: 1. Other Activities: Walking dogs: 21.
Vehicles
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 2. Western gull: 1Common murre, adult: 1
Driftline Content
Seaweeds and seagrass, Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt).
New Development
Bluff development.
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Eight total lures were seen, all of them glittery with an orangish hue.
Andy Warrick
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Sea lion corpse, seven dead birds, the rubber fishing lures, much fishing rope, decomposed jellies, and copious amounts of marine and land debris were all notable observations.
Andy Warrick
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Took photos of all dead birds, as well as live birds/jellyfish, and some trash and sky
Warrick
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Just a usual day on the beach, nothing noticible as far as errousoin.
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