Mile 220 Report
Yaquina Head north, Schooner Creek south
July 5, 2022
A beautiful day to be on 220.
Report Details
A beautiful day to be on 220. Not much trash, the high tide may have taken it out. Some nice rock cairn art at the northern part of my mile. The cliff continues to erode along with rock fall and vegetation coming down. The 3 black pipes continue to erode out of the proximal 1/2 of the beach cliffs (no pictures as I photograph them every time). Sea stars doing really well in the tide pools.
Conditions
Temperature: 60 F. Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Tide Level: -0.1 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 7. Number of dogs: 3. Walking or running: 5. Tidepooling: 2.
Vehicles
Cars/trucks parking: 2. ATVs/OHVs on beach, allowed: 1.
Notable Wildlife
2 BLOY, lots of gulls and lots of cormorants at the far south.
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 1. LIGU
Driftline Content
Seaweeds and seagrass, Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt).
Natural Changes
Landslides/major boulder falls, Major cracks appearing in bluffs, Newly exposed roots/trees falling, Visible retreat of solid bluff.
Cliff/bluff continuing to fall on Mile 220
Happy sea stars
Cool rock cairn art
Cliff erosion looking from furthest south northward
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Yaquina Head north, Schooner Creek south
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Yaquina Head north, Schooner Creek south
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Yaquina Head north, Schooner Creek south
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Yaquina Head north, Schooner Creek south
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Mile 220
Yaquina Head north, Schooner Creek south
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