Mile 253 - Neskowin Beach, SW, Proposal Rock, Neskowin Creek - October 30, 2020

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Lost plastic beach toys - I went out for an early moring walk. It was raining, no one else was on the beach. I found several toys including 2 childrens plastic beach shovels, aparently left from last night or before. I find alot of plastic buckets, plastic shovels/rakes, and other children's toys left on the beach. The buckets get smashed by the waves and broken down into smaller pieces, I often find pieces and broken handles. These plastics continue to break down and create microplastics. This is something I have been observing and not heard others mention it. I decided to start documenting catagories of beach debris, including a catagory for beach toys. I counted the trash I collected this morning, and lost beach toys accounted for 25% of the debris I found on this mile this morning. See attached pie chart and photo.

Conditions

Temperature: 53 F. Cloud Cover: Rain. Wind Velocity: Moderate. Wind Direction: S.

Human Activities

People keep losing items on the beach like beach toys and shoes, sunglasses etc

Actions & Comments

I collected items and trash on the beach, photographed and counted in a spreadsheet, and made a graph.

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Plastic children's shovel, plastic rake, plastic bulldozer, stuffed animal with plastic pacifier

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LisaL

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Neskowin Beach, SW, Proposal Rock, Neskowin Creek

July 19, 2024

It was a beautiful day at the beach with lots of children and families and dogs.

Kim

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Neskowin Beach, SW, Proposal Rock, Neskowin Creek

December 22, 2023

Stunningly beautiful today ~ yesterday, too - but today the clouds were dancing with one another ~ storm clouds with white puffy and promises of blue sky off and on.

Kim Anderson