Mile 97 Report
December 28, 2009
This was a glorious beach-walking day (probably the last windless one of the year), and I took advantage of it.
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This was a glorious beach-walking day (probably the last windless one of the year), and I took advantage of it. No people were out with me: just scads of shorebirds gathered up the beach on the wet sand. They were darker than sanderlings and not nearly as skittish as sandpipers.Otherwise, the surf was running way high.
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A nearly nonexistent driftline with just a few Chrysaora jellies and a few small rocks.
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Sparse driftline of small rocks, a few shells and broken Sand Dollars, one clump of Bull Kelp (Nereocystis) and a few strands of Macrocystis.
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Light driftline of many Ctenophores, small rocks, a few shells and crab carapaces, one Sea Star and pieces of the flowering plant, Lasthenia maritima.
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Light driftline with fresh water aquatic plants- Myriophyllum (Water Milfoil), terrestrial plant debris-stems, leaves and needles and saltwater plants, Phyllospadix (Surfgrass)and Eelgrass, Zostera.
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The beach consisted of a high ridge of accumulated sand with a six degree slope and lagoons in the runnel.
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