Mile 253 - Neskowin Beach, SW, Proposal Rock, Neskowin Creek - August 15, 2015

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They were taken Aug 15 at neskowin, northern edge of town. Photos submitted to coastguide@coho.net Looking for other information on this event.Call FawnMessage from Cynthia TrowbridgeHi. Without a water sample to see the organism, it would be hard to say. One strong possibility is the planktonic ciliate Mesodinium rubrum that ingests cryptomonads so can be orange, red, purple, or brown. It forms red tides but there are protozoan, not dinoflagellate red tides. The species is common in Oregon at this time of year and worldwide in spring and/or summer. Because ciliates are mobile animals, the blooms pulse and move. They are non-toxic except they do respire so bloom conditions can strip oxygen out of the water column at night at suffocate other organisms. Gayle Hansen wrote a blurb about these under a different name (Myrionecta rubra) in Yaquina Bay a few years ago. Let me know if you get a water sample. If the specimens jump around like fleas in the water, it would be Mesodinium.Cheers, Cynthia

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Neskowin Beach, SW, Proposal Rock, Neskowin Creek

December 22, 2023

Stunningly beautiful today ~ yesterday, too - but today the clouds were dancing with one another ~ storm clouds with white puffy and promises of blue sky off and on.

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