Mile 245 - Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek - March 14, 2010

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Beautiful day, tide coming in, with many people walking the beach. Despite the high number of dogs, for the first time it seems like all the owners were picking up! Again, so much plastic. I picked up a garbage bag full of large bits: bottles, bottle caps, line, tubing, sandals, sieves, parts of buckets, oval foam fish floats (blue and cream, about 7x4x1") and glass bottles. Again, the beach was strewn with millions of bits of plastic. A tourist remarked: "It's just getting worse, isn't it?" Another had picked up two very large, blue containers, one a rectangular box looking like a gas can. And so I thought: If we, as a society, can dispense "doggie bags" at beach entry points, why not have a dispenser with Solve bags for picking up trash?

Conditions

Temperature: 54 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Tide Level: 5.0 feet.

Human Activities

Number of people: 37. Number of dogs: 11. Walking or running: 32. Playing in sand: 5. Photography: 2.

Vehicles

Cars/trucks parking: 23. RVs/Buses parking: 1.

Driftline Content

Seaweeds and seagrass, Ocean-based debris (from fishing boats, ship trash, etc.), Marine debris (plastic, styrofoam, etc. washing in from the sea), Styrofoam, Wood pieces. Many plastic bottle with oriental character writen labels

Natural Changes

Erosion of vegetated foredune.

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