Mile 216 - Newport, Nye Beach south - August 8, 2009 | Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition

Report Details

A typical summer day on Nye Beach, with heavy visitation, but relatively little trash on the beach, marine or terrestrial in origin. The rustic cottages at the Viking's Motel are being replaced by condominiums. I twice stayed in these cottages as tourist in the early 1980s, before moving to Newport in 1987.A fishing boat, the F/V Lori Ann, ran aground north of the Nye Beach turnaround on August 11, 2009. See my mile dispatch for that date for details. Refloating it involved several pieces of heavy construction equipment, a tanker to remove fuel from the boat, and a helicopter to lift the boat up as a tugboat pulled it off the beach. This probably impacted the beach more than the stranding did.

Conditions

Temperature: 62 F. Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Wind Direction: SW. Tide Level: 2.6 feet.

Human Activities

Number of people: 138. Number of dogs: 13. Walking or running: 37. Playing in surf: 19. Playing in sand: 34. Sitting: 7. Photography: 1. Other Activities: Walking dogs: 21.

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 17.

Beached Birds

Total dead birds: 2. Western gull: 1Common murre, adult: 1

Driftline Content

Seaweeds and seagrass, Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt).

New Development

Bluff development.