Mile 243 Report
Wecoma Beach, Lincoln City
December 25, 2021
Christmas Day, 2021, quiet, partly cloudy with rain promised.
Report Details
Christmas Day, 2021, quiet, partly cloudy with rain promised. Signficant amount of styrofoad packing pieces, easily enough for a couple of large trash bags, lots of plastic, bottles, caps, wrappers, mystery pieces of plastic. This has been apparent the last couple of weeks and continues. Large dead sea lion next to cliff between Nordic Inn and NW 15th street, there more than 10 days. Significantly more dead birds than usual these last couple of weeks. Easily 20 or more on the mile today. No fresh bodies.
Conditions
Temperature: 41 F. Cloud Cover: Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Tide Level: 4.0 feet.
Activities
Number of people: 67. Number of dogs: 19. Walking or running: 67.
Concerns
Litter
Apparent violations: Significantly more trash, plastics and foam packing pieces than usual..Vehicles
Cars/trucks on beach, allowed: 7.
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 20.
Wrackline Content
Wood pieces, Marine debris, Plastic debri (plastic, styrofoam, etc. washing in from the sea), Styrofoam.
Wecoma Beach, Christmas Day, 2021
Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Dog.
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