March 12, 2024

Temperature: 48 F. Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Tide Level: -0.1 feet.

Number of people: 4. Number of dogs: 2. Sitting: 4.

Few birds; but two magnificent bald eagles flying above us on the beach!

Small rocks, Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt). Lots of Velella Velella on the beach today...(small blue jellyfish with sails).

Dune modification/removal, New riprap or shoreline protection structures. This is the most critical change on my mile. Over the last two months there has been a dramatic shift in the erosion along a 400+ foot stretch of foredune and the 'wrap-around' portion of recent revetment installed last year. I am (as I mentioned in my last post,) saddened that I can no longer walk my mile south to north due to the changing landscape of the actual beach-- even at low tide like today. There have been many minus tides that I've attempted to head north and report on this mile, but have been forced to turn around because the waves are crashing on the installed shoreline armor rocks. The pictures you see here show the dramatic creation of an embayment south of the recent installation; hopefully the sand budget will see a way to return much of what was lost. One of the other factors this particular spot presents is the destruction of a 'roadway' or 'ramp' that had been used over the last couple of years to access revetment repair and installations approved by OPRD. The community (Salishan) has obtained at least one emergency permit recently to build a temporary breakwater in an attempt to soften the wave action eroding the end of a small lane that accesses some homes.

Landslides/major boulder falls, Major cracks appearing in bluffs, Newly exposed roots/trees falling, Erosion of vegetated foredune, Visible retreat of solid bluff, Evidence of wave overtopping.