Mile 224 - Beverly Beach north, Johnson Creek - 12/11/2025 | Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition

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While it was cloudy, it was a nice day to walk on the beach, warmish, very little wind & lots to see in the way of erosion, destabilized trees, etc. I wish I'd had time to walk the entire mile as I wanted to check on the erosion of the beach bluffs on either side of a culvert (whose structure is steadily deteriorating) & how great a volume of water was flowing through the culvert & down the beach to the ocean, see if drift logs had piled up near the culvert (as has sometimes happened in the past, etc). Also observed were what I called "garnet sands" usually seen when some of the lighter (quartz) grains are washed away, leaving heavier chromite, garnet, et al. sand particles.

Conditions

Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light.

Activities

Types of Activities: Other - see below.

Other Activities: One person had two tall buckets & was standing near a creek runoff to the ocean, on the gravel bed, no idea what he was doing unless he was looking for some particular shape and/or size of rock.. As noted above, there were very few people on the beach..

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There was little "wrack". It was obvious that there'd been high tides that went all the way up the beach, plus had washed up against the base of beach bluffs w/enough energy that some grass covered (beach grass of other) humps on the beach had been eroded away. The water had scoured away sand that covered underlying rock & some of that rock (looked like mud/siltstone) had been broken up. I saw a number of rocks, ranging in diameter from approx. 4-5" w/some larger ones scattered on the beach from near the cliff base to where the water began. Usually this is a sandy beach, not mucn in the way of rocks of that size & type, some of the rock was pretty well rounded, some not. But I didn't see much of a "wrack". It's possible if I'd been able to walk further south to one particular part of the beach, I might've seen some. Otherwise, I think the tides have been sufficiently high energy not to leave much in the way of light weight objects for the time being. I did drift logs near a creek /run off to the ocean bed (at/near the beach bluff

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"Garnet sands" & visible erosion of vegetation covered sand masses.

gradually destabilizing trees, adjacent to trees is some rock/strata scoured by high tides.

Tree that may or may not fall over this winter: note that the top 3rd has a curve & the top is not that far from vertical, indicating tree has been responding to an ongoing long time slide down the bluff

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