Mile 220 Report
Yaquina Head north, Schooner Creek south
April 30, 2021
Not as many sea stars as I would have liked to see on the minus tide but they are definitely there.
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Not as many sea stars as I would have liked to see on the minus tide but they are definitely there. Only one sea star looked like it might have wasting disease (see photo)
Conditions
Temperature: 50 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Tide Level: -1.9 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 12. Number of dogs: 3. Walking or running: 6. Tidepooling: 6.
Vehicles
Cars/trucks parking: 4.
Notable Wildlife
Sandpipers (or similar!), turkey vultures, anemones, sea stars
Driftline Content
Small rocks, Styrofoam.
Natural Changes
Landslides/major boulder falls, Major cracks appearing in bluffs, Newly exposed roots/trees falling, Visible retreat of solid bluff. The natural changes are exposing more of the black drainage (?) pipes - coming out of the bluff.
Possible sea star wasting?
Hungry sea star with a BIG mussel..nom nom nom
Beautiful sea star
Trees falling as bluff recedes
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