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A gorgeous day, the Pacific very pacific. Perfect for opening day of crab season; at one point I could see 8 fishing boats from my mile. Beach quite clean; some debris (bits of bleached nylon rope, a few plastic and glass bottles, etc.) well above last high tide. No glass (or plastic) floats; one lightbulb. On the wet sand, razor clam shells mostly, a few kelp clumps. Very little bird activity; not even gulls. Several big, well-weathered stumps. Inland, heard lots of birds in the trees; possibly kinglets, definitely several flickers. A heavenly day. I will add a couple of photos in a bit.

Human Activities

Number of people: 1. Walking or running: 1.

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 1.

Notable Wildlife

Very little bird activity. Saw virtually no gulls, one flock of sanderlings on the wing,one very distant group of ducks over the ocean.

Beached Birds

Total dead birds: 3. 1 pelican, one sooty shearwater, one other (smaller, darker) petrel of some kind.

Driftline Content

Wood pieces. Very little in the driftline: mostly fine twigs and fine white feathers.

Natural Changes

Very high sand volume (buried fishing boat not visible.)

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Mile 157

Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake

October 21, 2024

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

August 21, 2023

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

July 30, 2022

Mile 157 is a beautiful, little-visited stretch of coastline.

GasiorowskiM

Mile 157

Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake

January 1, 2014

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

March 5, 2013

A rainy day; we had the beach to ourselves.

bzenderson

Mile 157

Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake

November 25, 2012

Gorgeous day at the beach (crappy and cloudy and cold in Eugene).

bzenderson

Mile 157

Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake

June 20, 2012

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

April 15, 2012

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