April 3, 2023

Cloud Cover: Partly Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Moderate. Wind Direction: N.

Number of people: 24. Number of dogs: 3. Walking or running: 20. Sitting: 1. Surfing: 2. Other Activities: 2 children, running, etc., while tossing a foot ball around.. When I arrived at the beach I estimated the number of people & dogs I listed. By the time I left the beach, at approximately 5:35pm, there were 3 people, no dogs on the beach & I saw no surfers.

Small rocks, Wood pieces. I didn't see any kelp, I did see a fair amount of what looked like sea grass. A few moderate sized pieces of wood. Overall, a meager driftline although plenty of plastic bits & I saw a few quite small pieces of styrofoam.

Landslides/major boulder falls, Visible retreat of solid bluff. Slides are small. Photographed a small section w/moderate sized rocks that appeared ot have tumbled down the bluff probably at least a week ago, I suspect soil, etc., came down w/the rocks but smaller & lower weight debris was washed away by the high tides and perhaps what rain we've had lately. Also observed that nicely (and colorfully) stratified beach bluff had alot of sediment cones and other indications that the bluff has eroded. The bases of the debris cones rest on ledges or rock that erodes slower then some of the other strata & so sticks out enough to form a bit of a ledge for sediment shedding from a strata above it to come to rest on. I haven't observed that before that I remember but will check some old photos. The slide I observed on my last visit had been eroded by high tides & rain, it looked to me as if the dominant "rock" /sediment of the slide is a clayey mudstone, which would dissolve into the ocean wavfes relatively easy compared to say, basalt or other of the better consolidated, harder rocks seen on local beaches. More trees in the proces of very slowly losing their hold on the exposed beach bluffs & slowly either sliding or tipping over, but still clinging to the bluff.

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