June 21, 2012

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Charmed by the beach this AM as I often am. Cliffs full of flowers: Asters, clustered white flowers(water parsley?)and common monkey flower. Small birds twitter and hop from branch to rock along the cliffs. Common Murres and Black Oystercatchers on rocks at south end of beach. Kelp/algae, many feathers, plastic and Styrofoam in the driftline. Good infill on beach. The third house N of the first small headland has a massive structure on the beach to divert ocean waves. There is good infill in this area also with only slight dips on either side. Areas with with large pipe run offs are filling in also. No longer gullies, just washes. Slight sign of cliff erosion. At north end, rock shelf breaking apart at a rapid rate. Was able to get over rocks and pull trash from this pocket beach. Trash mostly small pieces of Stryrofoam and plastic bottles. There were much larger pieces of Styrofoam on 6/9. A piece of dock remains. Being used as trash basket again. Never any return phone calls from Parks Dept on this. There was a hearing last week on planned new development to prevent erosion. Al Solomon was the only person that spoke. He has information about this.