Mile 157 Report
Oregon Dunes NRA, west of Perkins Lake
July 7, 2007
Pretty uneventful trip.
Report Details
Pretty uneventful trip. Very windy. Not many critters. Not much garbage on the beach even; a few plastic bottles and the like.
Conditions
Temperature: 70 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Strong. Wind Direction: NW. Tide Level: 1.9 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 8. Number of dogs: 3. Walking or running: 8.
Notable Wildlife
Very few birds; just a dozen or so gulls, a few vultures. A few very dessicated piles of kelp and a few clumps of sea palms.
Driftline Content
Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt), Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt), Shells, Small rocks. Primarily a lot of shell fragments. Several piles of rope, mostly well colonized by goose barnacles. Lots of mole crab shells.
Natural Changes
Very high sand volume (not much of a cliff at the foredune. No evidence of fishing boat.
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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