Mile 224 - Beverly Beach north, Johnson Creek - February 19, 2015

Report Details

Beautiful day at the beach, cooler then the past few days have been. All dogs on beach under good control. I arrived at beach around 2:53 p.m., left the beach at 3:55 p.m. When I arrived, it was mostly sunny with clouds visible far offshore, one or two clouds overhead. When I left many more clouds had drifted in, some looking gray, and the sun was only occasionally visible."Garnet" sands much in evidence (garnets & other dark minerals visible). Walked barefoot for awhile, sand felt soft (clay sized particles?) underfoot rather then gritty & sandy. I don't know exactly what the tide level was, high tide today (at HMSC) was 12:18 p.m. & 9.8 feet, low tide at 6:40 p.m., -1.3. Tide was going out during my walk.

Human Activities

Number of people: 10. Number of dogs: 3. Walking or running: 7. Surfing: 1. Other Activities: One person sleeping. The man "rockhunting" was more likely cracking open rocks for fossils. There's a fossiliferous strata exposed in several locations on this mile.

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 11. RVs/Buses parking: 1.

Notable Wildlife

None

Stranded Marine Mammals

2 carcasses of what looked like seals. Been dead for some time, bones visible, in one carcass several vertebrae were already separated from the rest of the carcass.

Dead Fish or Invertebrates

Just a few small crab shells/carapaces, might be leftover from molts.

Driftline Content

Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt), Marine debris (plastic, styrofoam, etc. washing in from the sea), Styrofoam, Wood pieces. Plastic bits, ranging in size from about 1/8" to 2.5", shapes from round to circular to flat oblong

Natural Changes

Visible retreat of solid bluff. small slides, ongoing bluff retreat

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