Mile 245 Report
Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek
January 17, 2009
This winter's erosion of the uplifted basalt near the end of 245 is interesting in the effect: usually the cliff is fairly smooth, now there are spines and depressions.
Report Details
This winter's erosion of the uplifted basalt near the end of 245 is interesting in the effect: usually the cliff is fairly smooth, now there are spines and depressions. The bridge between the basalt and the igneous outcropping has further eroded; it may not be more than another two or three years when the rock will stand separate from the basalt from the midpoint up.The jellies were obviously only just stranded. I put a few in tidepools but they only sank to the bottom. What's the general wisdom on this type of stranding? Leave them, put them in tidepools, put them in the surfline?
Conditions
Temperature: 65 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Tide Level: -1.0 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 94. Number of dogs: 15. Walking or running: 64. Photography: 2. Tidepooling: 14. Other Activities: 12- High School class outing.
Vehicles
Cars/trucks parking: 26. RVs/Buses parking: 3.
Dead Fish or Invertebrates
Unusual concentration. The drift line of the immediately receding tide had just stranded several dozen brown jellies averaging 3" in diameter in a 200 ft swath. Estimated count 120.
Driftline Content
Land-based debris (picnics, etc.), Ocean-based debris (from fishing boats, ship trash, etc.), Wood pieces.
Natural Changes
Erosion of vegetated foredune, Newly exposed roots/trees falling, Visible retreat of solid bluff.
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