Mile 172 Report
Heceta Beach North, Driftwood Shores
December 23, 2008
Clean beach, excepting 30 plastic strapping tapes (seems like boxes were opened out at sea) and about 12 sandwich-size wax papers & plastic bags.
Report Details
Clean beach, excepting 30 plastic strapping tapes (seems like boxes were opened out at sea) and about 12 sandwich-size wax papers & plastic bags. Re report by 173, Sutton Creek meandered back north,(see photos 11/28 & 12/23);and, the cement block (2 photos attached 12/23) moved south about 1/8 miles, south of Sutton Creek mouth, high up at fore dune level. Lots of tree size drifts blown in with previous storms. Very light breeze and sunny today.On 12/30/08 oldMGguy contributed this: That large concrete float looks like one of the floating marina dock floats at that abandoned marina west of the Siuslaw River Bridge. Several sections of the dock structure have either sunk, broken up, or are missing.
Conditions
Temperature: 45 F. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Wind Direction: SE. Tide Level: 0.0 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 10. Number of dogs: 1. Walking or running: 10.
Vehicles
Cars/trucks parking: 5.
Driftline Content
Seaweeds and seagrass, Shells, Wood pieces. packing straps 3 ft long
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Another glorious sunny winter day at Heceta Beach! The recent high tides have washed away most of the summer dunes that accumulate on the high beach in front of the vegetation zone. Just another day in paradise!
Dick Mason
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Heceta Beach North, Driftwood Shores
Lots of wood debris stacked up on the beach from past high tide and storms.
Lyndell Wilken
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Louie the Lab and I chased his Chuck-It ball from Driftwood Shores north to Sutton Creek and back today.
oldMGguy
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Nice sunny day for flinging the "Chuck-It" ball into the surf for the dog.
oldMGguy
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Heceta Beach North, Driftwood Shores
There were two dead sea lions in a 1 mile stretch between Driftwood Shores and the north jetty.
Lyndell
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A 60-degree weather report brought out lots of people on the beach.
MooreC
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Jelleyfish for a quarter mile.
Lyndell
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Heceta Beach North, Driftwood Shores
Took the missus out for a trial walk with her new walking sticks, initially heading north into the wind from Driftwood Shores Resort up to Sutton Creek and return with a nice tailwind.
oldMGguy