August 16, 2018

Temperature: 65 F. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Wind Direction: NW. Tide Level: 1.0 feet.

Number of people: 21. Number of dogs: 1. Walking or running: 8. Tidepooling: 13. I usually do the beach earlier in morning--so larger number of people. The car was at NW 68th Street access. Several families headed to the south end of mile into sand filled tidepool area.

I could easily count several hundred birds--Yaquina Head is a bird breeding area.

There were no signs of the 700-1,000 gallon diesel oil spill in Yaquina River (about 5 miles to South) which happened on August 14.

Seaweeds and seagrass, Shells, Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt), Marine debris (plastic, styrofoam, etc. washing in from the sea). I really checked the drift line since there was a 700-1,000 gallon diesel fuel spill in Yaquina Bay (roughly 5 miles south) two days ago. I saw no oil. The wrack line was kelp, shells, some dungeness castings--but also many body parts (birds feeding). The beach was basically free of plastic--just a few small "mini" pieces toward the southern part of the mile toward Yaquina Head.

Drainage pipes. Drainage pipes--there is now a second concrete section on the beach and someone filled it with fairly large pieces of driftwood set on edge.

Landslides/major boulder falls. There was a landslide at the point where I took the "keyhole" pictures. I moved from the point about 20 feet and have a new Garmin GPS position.