Mile 157 Report
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
October 21, 2024
This is a beautiful, secluded beach, accessible from the Oregon Dunes Day Use Area.
Report Details
This is a beautiful, secluded beach, accessible from the Oregon Dunes Day Use Area. Only four other people were walking on the beach. There were numerous gulls, a large flock of shearwaters, and many, many dead jellies from at least four species. In the wooded part of the access trail just behind the beach there were a large, diverse number of beautiful mushrooms.
Conditions
Temperature: 55 F. Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Tide Level: 4 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 4. Walking or running: 4. This is a lightly visited beach. There is very little human debris.
Notable Wildlife
There were many gulls and a flock of 100 or so shearwaters.
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 3.
Dead Fish or Invertebrates
Unusual concentration. There were many, many dead jellies washed up on the beach, from what appeared to be at least four distinct species. See photos.
Driftline Content
There are many clam and mussel shell fragments on the beach but almost no human debris of any kind. It is a beautiful stretch of beach.
Natural Changes
In the wooded part of the Oregon Dunes Loop Trail, which provides access to Mile 157, there was a bewildering variety of mushrooms. Very beautiful!
Beach looking south.
Brown jelly.
Translucent, disk-shaped jelly.
A different translucent jelly.
Jelly with many tentacles.
Beach looking north.
Flock of shearwaters.
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Mark Gasiorowski
CoastWatcher
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Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
This is a beautiful, secluded beach, accessible from the Oregon Dunes Day Use Area.
Mark Gasiorowski
Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
It was another beautiful day on Mile 157, which we entered from the upper part of the Oregon Dunes Loop Trail.
GasiorowskiM
Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
Mile 157 is a beautiful, little-visited stretch of coastline.
GasiorowskiM
Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
Beautiful New Years Day at the beach, while it was cold and foggy in the valley.
bzenderson
Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
A rainy day; we had the beach to ourselves.
bzenderson
Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
Gorgeous day at the beach (crappy and cloudy and cold in Eugene).
bzenderson
Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
There is a lot of buzz about whether the stuff on the beaches these days is from the tsunami.
bzenderson
Mile 157
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
Fair amount of ocean-borne debris, but unlike my last walk here about a month earlier, when the debris was d0ominated by Japanese plastic bottles (tsunami debris?
bzenderson