Report Details

It was a beautiful day to walk the beach. The tide was a bit high for complete tide-pool viewing. THe interesting part of the walk was finding the dead Murre. I hiked up to the mile North of this mile and found 3 more dead Murres. This walk was not long after significantly large 22' swells on the Ocean, I hope that was what caused the upset in the Murres.

Conditions

Cloud Cover: Sunny.

Human Activities

Number of people: 19. Number of dogs: 9. Walking or running: 19.

Notable Wildlife

13 Ravens, 5 Seagulls on South end of Beach, Giant Green Sea Anemone and Aggregating anemones on South tide-pools. ?unidentified Seaworms with legs? on tideline. Many 2 inch jellyfish on tideline.

Beached Birds

Total dead birds: 1. Common Murre

Dead Fish or Invertebrates

3 crabbacks

Driftline Content

Seaweeds and seagrass. Large masses of Kelp

Natural Changes

Fore-dune is at vegetation level

Share this post

All Mile 122 Reports

Showing 8 of 19 reports

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

February 8, 2025

Extreme low tide.

Stephanie Dresie

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

January 19, 2025

First time the beach was frosted, near parking/grass areas, due to cold weather.

Stephanie Dresie

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

October 25, 2024

Sunset with heavy clouds to west. No dogs, no surfers. Surfer had died on previous Thursday AM (potential cardiac arrest) Not much sea debris a few single bull kelp.

Stephanie Dresie

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

September 30, 2024

8 people, 6 dogs, 0 surfers Low tide, north end of beach had bull kelp wrapped in grass. One dead gull. No garbage was found.

Stephanie Dresie

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

August 25, 2024

Could see the dredging ship working near end of jetty. Lots of bull kelp on beach.

Stephanie Dresie

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

July 21, 2024

Calm day 39 people 8 dogs 6 surfers No garbage which is nice to see

Stephanie Dresie

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

March 16, 2024

Busy day on the beach due to beautiful warm weekend weather.

Stephanie Dresie

Mile 122

Bastendorff Beach west half

January 1, 2024

Beach clean up day sponsored by Surfrider on New Years Day, so lots of activity. I will need to come at super low tides to access little cove at south end of mile, in the future. Few shells, few small wood pieces. Removed styrofoam pieces, smaller than a quarter, 3 ropes (less than 1’ in length), besides New Years stuff (beer cans, spent fire works, cardboard pieces). This is my first submittal.

Stephanie Dresie