Mile 262 Report
October 3, 2018
by Linda Fink
Other Mile 262 Reports (36)
2022
October 3, 2022 - Linda Fink
Mostly I took photos for the CoastWatch Fall Challenge project on iNaturalist
August 27, 2022 - BlueSand831
About 30 people and six dogs.
August 13, 2022 - BlueSand831
Lots of people. Great warm weather. Water was warm too.
July 31, 2022 - BlueSand831
Actually a really quiet calm warm day.
July 21, 2022 - Linda Fink
nice day, lots of people and their dogs enjoying the beach
April 27, 2022 - Linda Fink
Finally, the park has put up a no vehicles beyond this point sign that will last and not get buried in sand. It is at the north end of the dune.
April 6, 2022 - Linda Fink
lovely day with people enjoying the sunshine, no problems to report
March 24, 2022 - Linda Fink
A beautiful day during spring break week brought many families to this beach with no crowding because of the very wide beach at a minus tide
2021
October 18, 2021 - Linda Fink
strange bright liquid oozing out of bluff bank (photo attached), trail down bluff well used and causing erosion (photo attached)3 of the 16 people hunting for nurdles, toxic plastic pellets, as part...
July 29, 2021 - Linda Fink
lovely morning on the beach with people enjoying themselves. Very low tide allowing access to normally water-surrounded cliff-side rocks. More cars and people were arriving for the afternoon when I...
March 17, 2021 - Linda Fink
Beautiful sunny day with few people enjoying the weather and the beach. Most significant change was the natural sinking of the north side of the big dune creating access to vehicles (judging by the...
2020
October 7, 2020 - Linda Fink
A foggy day with few people. Vehicle tracks on beach show that vehicles had been there the day before, where they are no longer allowed. One pickup was on the beach today. McPhillips Park access is...
July 21, 2020 - Linda Fink
The north bluff face of Cape Kiwanda is a sheer cliff now, much eroded from my last trip. There was evidence of many campfires in front of the vegetated dune all the way along my mile. Some,...
March 18, 2020 - Linda Fink
beautiful day with people keeping the prescribed distance apart on this Covid-19 sequester day. The vegetated cliff is now a sheer cut off with many small streams running out onto the beach. Two...
2019
July 22, 2019 - Linda Fink
Most everyone enjoying the beach in a responsible manner. All cars but one in allowed area. Always seems to be one group that thinks the rules are not for them.
June 11, 2019 - Linda Fink
very wide beach at low tide with people widely separated enjoying themselves in various ways
February 13, 2019 - Linda Fink
Sunny windless morning with few people on the beach. Tracks of ORV up dune and down from earlier... some tracks on lower beach had been wiped out by earlier wave action. Dune shows sign of waves...
2018
July 13, 2018 - Linda Fink
Most people were on the south side of the dune, not in my mile. Two hang gliders and 3 vehicles with helpers/onlookers with them on north side. A few people walking the beach, two with dogs. A couple...
April 23, 2018 - Linda Fink
About 20 people, all but 2 from cars parked below the dune, walking on beach and climbing the north side of the dune, with 2 dogs. Jillions of little sand crabs in the low tide zone burrowing in the...
February 13, 2018 - Linda Fink
Very clean, flat beach abruptly ends at vegetated hillside. North side of dune gently sloped enough for 1/3rd of the way up for vehicles to have gone up that far, judging from the tracks in the sand...
2017
December 4, 2017 - Volunteer Trainer
At high tide, there was no beach in sections. The other photo is taken on my way back of that same stretch of beach but looking north instead of south. On the way, I had to scramble up the bank to...
October 16, 2017 - Linda Fink
A beautiful, sunny, windless day just after high tide. More dead birds in the driftline than I have seen here before. All the signs are gone that had indicated the vehicle-prohibited areas,...
August 2, 2017 - dslinger
Large amounts of algae noted.
July 5, 2017 - Linda Fink
A foggy, windless day on very wide beach with abrupt cliff edge; lots of illegal fireworks this day after the 4th of July and lots of picnic junk including clothing! Most people were driving around...
May 6, 2017 - Linda Fink
Clean beach and very wide this time. No signs left saying where vehicles prohibited but no one was trying to drive up the dune. Two hang gliders sailing. Nice day and people enjoying the beach, most...
March 10, 2017 - Linda Fink
Warm windless day. Picked up one sack of trash. Lots of driftwood, lots more bank and dune erosion. No vehicle tracks in prohibited area, even though sign down.
2016
December 13, 2016 - Linda Fink
more debris than we could pick up including refrigerator casing. We hauled off ropes and plastic big pieces. Most junk I've ever seen there. Large eroded hollowed out (eroded) area at north end of...
October 12, 2016 - dslinger
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/albums/72157673244006880 Many more photos of the beauty and ongoing destruction of this natural area.
July 7, 2016 - Linda Fink
Amazing change to the beach and dune. Tons of sand gone from the edge of the dune... it's now a cliff. Cape bluff more collapsed with lots of rocks at shoreline. Sand gone from beach leaving exposed...
May 7, 2016 - Linda Fink
sand has been washed off the beach uncovering lots of rocks. Dune no longer descends gently to beach... high steep cliff instead. My camera quit after the first few photos.
February 9, 2016 - Linda Fink
Lots of erosion of bank and dune from recent high tides and storms. Many photos here: http://mycoastwatch.blogspot.com/2016/02/february-9-2016-mile-262.html
2015
December 25, 2015 - Linda Fink
Most dramatic was the debris (logs, etc.) blocking the access road so there were no vehicles on the beach. Next was the obvious (by foam and flattened vegetation and erosion) overtopping of waves on...
November 25, 2015 - Linda Fink
Always lots of vehicle traffic here... less today because of extremely high tide (King Tide). Vehicles routinely park on the beach beyond the signs saying no parking beyond this point but this is the...
2011
July 7, 2011 - [email protected]
The arch at the tip of Cape Kiwanda (northern face) is now gone. Apparently it crumbled in February, as one person told me on Facebook.