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Yesterday around 5:30pm I walked down to the beach via the Lucky Gap access. That access places you near the south end of mile 219. When I arrived & later, when I left (about an hour later), a group of people had built a beach fire using what looked like a large stump.Today, 24 hours later, the people are long gone, but they left the stump burning, although there are no flames. Plenty of smoke though. I've attached a photo. While this fire wasn't built directly in the beach grass, there is vegetation nearby and whoever the people were, they arranged other beach wood in a kind of rectangle arrangement around their fire. I don't know if the wood is close enough and the wind likely to get high enough for the other wood or vegetation to burn (before the fire finally burns itself out) but I suspect neither did the people who built this fire near vegetation and near other wood. They couldn't be bothered to use water from a nearby creek (maybe 40 feet or so away) to put the fire out. They just walked away. On the 31st, I left a message for the state parks rule enforcement officer, just to let him know I thought there'd be smoldering wood the next time he was in the area, so he could check it if he felt it necessary. When I returned to that stretch of beach the next day, I was sorry to see that I was correct and the people who built the fire couldn't be bothered to put it out. I think what they did is poor practice.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

August 30, 2023

Foggy uneventful morning.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

July 19, 2023

Report finds no unusual developments or observations at this location and no new causes for concern were identified.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

March 17, 2023

It was a calm, quiet morning at Yaquina Head.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

January 20, 2023

It is a beautiful, quiet day.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

December 12, 2022

It has been a beautiful, calm morning at Yaquina Head with low wind and one visitor.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

November 19, 2022

It was a brilliantly sunny day although the stiff east wind was very chilly.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

October 25, 2022

It was a chilly, cloudy/foggy Monday morning so there were only a handful of visitors in the park, none of whom were on the beach.

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Mile 219

North end of Agate Beach, Yaquina Head south

September 18, 2022

It was an entirely typical day at Yaquina Head on cobble beach and quarry cove.

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