Mile 110 Report
Merchants Beach, Seven Devils State Wayside
February 5, 2012
A beautiful sunny, warm Super Bowl Sunday - way too nice to stay inside and watch the game.
Report Details
A beautiful sunny, warm Super Bowl Sunday - way too nice to stay inside and watch the game. Eleven other people and five dogs joined me on the beach. Three people were panning for gold. Erosion of the foredune. Remarkable the amount of erosion that has occurred in the 30+ years that I have been walking this beach.
Conditions
Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light.
Human Activities
Number of people: 11. Number of dogs: 5. Walking or running: 8. Other Activities: 3 panning for gold.
Vehicles
Cars/trucks parking: 6.
Natural Changes
Erosion of vegetated foredune. Just normal erosion - but remarkable how much has occurred in the 30+ years I've been walking this beach.
TRBishop
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