Mile 263 Report
Cape Kiwanda State Park north end
December 4, 2011
December report: joyriders driving up bluffs.
Report Details
December report: joyriders driving up bluffs. See report for details.
Conditions
Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light.
Human Activities
Number of people: 4. Walking or running: 2. Sitting: 2. Cars up bluffs! Four separate tracks of cars driving up 15-20 feet over rocks and up the bank, leaving ruts and debris.
Vehicles
Cars/trucks on beach, prohibited: 2.
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 1.
Natural Changes
Erosion of vegetated foredune, Major cracks appearing in bluffs, Newly exposed roots/trees falling, Evidence of wave overtopping, Visible retreat of solid bluff, Landslides/major boulder falls. People sawing off roots for bonfires.
Actions & Comments
This bank is eroding markedly, in any event, but to have it vandalized by joyriders gunning their vehicles up its slopes is reprehensible. South side of rock outcropping between TDM and Cape Kiwanda.
olsonko
CoastWatcher
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Mile 263
Cape Kiwanda State Park north end
Beautiful, warm, sunny day with lots of people (for this beach) enjoying it.
Linda Fink
Mile 263
Cape Kiwanda State Park north end
3 drivers in trucks doing donuts in the sand.
ShelbyG
Mile 263
Cape Kiwanda State Park north end
Nothing out of the ordinary for a sunny weekday afternoon.
connierbruce
Mile 263
Cape Kiwanda State Park north end
Over the past year (reports intended each time) we have walked and observed this and miles to north and south many times.
connierbruce
Mile 263
Cape Kiwanda State Park north end
December report: joyriders driving up bluffs.
olsonko