Mile 253 Report
May 27, 2007
by JSteiner
Other Mile 253 Reports (25)
2022
October 16, 2022 - Kim Noreen Anderson
A beautiful day ~ more people than we expected enjoying this amazing part of the planet. Beach was clean.
October 2, 2022 - Kim Noreen Anderson
We are just learning the beach so can't compare it to anything yet. Today the sand was a gentle slope to the rip rap. Hawk Creek was almost dry in places. Places of smooth rocks every 20 yards or so...
2020
October 30, 2020 - LisaL
Lost plastic beach toys - I went out for an early moring walk. It was raining, no one else was on the beach. I found several toys including 2 childrens plastic beach shovels, aparently left from last...
October 6, 2020 - LisaL
The beach seems pretty busy for a Tuesday in October. It was a beautiful sunny day and I suspect people were trying to soak up the last of the sun while they could. There have been significantly more...
2019
November 3, 2019 - neskowinwatcher
Cloudy day, Temp mid 50's light winds. Tide ( 6.4) was almost high. 6 people 1 dog on the beach. 2 adults tending a small beach fire.beach was very clean, wrack line was insignificant, no dead...
2018
December 21, 2018 - neskowinwatcher
It was a bonus weather day at Neskowin Beach to observe the Dec 21 King Tide...... partly cloudy, calm conditions, 42 deg F. Only two cars in the parking lot. The tide (8.1) was high @ 10:30a.The...
July 16, 2018 - neskowinwatcher
Approximately 50 people were on the beach with 10 dogs, most on leashes, Perhaps 5 dogs running loose but all within close proximity to their owners. No dogs were chasing any wildlife. Several...
May 30, 2018 - Neskowin254
A seal pup was observed by numerous individuals from about 4:15 pm to 8:15 pm in front of Lifesaver Post #7 in Neskowin (the pup was sighted earlier that morning further south). The pup appeared...
2017
November 4, 2017 - neskowinwatcher
Rainy day. We walked the beach to the north only for 200 yards as the Nov 2017 King Tide was on the rise. We stayed through high tide. The waves were lapping at the botton of the rip rap.
October 14, 2017 - neskowinwatcher
It was a warm sunny day with a light 5 mph NW breeze and a 2.45 low tide @ 3:15pm.Approximately 70 people and 10 dogs were enjoying the beach. They were beach combing, flying kites and having a good...
September 24, 2017 - dwhite
Fawn led a tour and educational session of the Neskowin beach north side.
2015
August 15, 2015 - Volunteer Trainer
They were taken Aug 15 at neskowin, northern edge of town. Photos submitted to [email protected] Looking for other information on this event.Call FawnMessage from Cynthia TrowbridgeHi. Without a...
2014
March 20, 2014 - [email protected]
A huge amount of sand has come in this winter. The stumps at South Beach Neskowin are now, at the highest, only 18 inches-2 feet tall. Neskowin creek is currently flowing south of Proposal Rock. The...
2012
December 30, 2012 - [email protected]
The winter high (and sometimes low) tides continue to send waves crashing into and over the rip rap which now goes (except for where Neskowin creek flows out) from the south end of Neskowin's south...
October 17, 2012 - [email protected]
One of Neskowin's resident Bald Eagles posed for me on a exposed branch at the top of Proposal Rock.
July 2, 2012 - [email protected]
It was a calm, mostly cloudy morning with a streak of blue sky over the ocean. There was a minus tide at 6:30 in the morning though the end of south beach where tide pools are usually accessible was...
March 1, 2012 - [email protected]
It was a brisk yet windless afternoon, with a mix of blue and grey overhead. The beach seems scoured with some large patches of rocks covering the sand. Neskowin Creek, which usually chooses a...
2011
May 19, 2011 - [email protected]
It was a glorious, windless, minus tide morning on Neskowin's south beach. The stumps were more exposed and the bottoms of them, recently unburied, were clean of sea life. There were many small rocks...
March 23, 2011 - [email protected]
It was a beautiful morning and a very low tide in the middle of spring break week. Neskowin creek has spread out from its former paths and has created what looks like a bay at high tide, covering the...
2009
January 29, 2009 - JSteiner
15 - 20 people, walking and photography
2008
June 27, 2008 - JSteiner
Large new planting of European beachgrass, atop reinforced rip-rap where Hawk Creek flows across the beach.New, and/or replacement rip rap going in at 2 properties where major erosion happened this...
February 25, 2008 - JSteiner
Major erosion of beach, which is so narrow as to be unwalkable in one area. Rocks exposed. Considerable driftwood. An entangled bird with apparent signs of oiling observed.
2007
September 1, 2007 - JSteiner
Huge flock of brown pelicans floating in the surf, and diving - must have been some sort feed that they were after - they were very active.At the S. end of this stretch of beach where it meets...
2006
December 29, 2006 - JSteiner
A very quiet day. The ocean has been very rough lately, and very high. A large amount of large driftwood on beach. One Bald Eagle on tree, back side of Proposal Rock. Many gulls foraging along the...