Mile 28 Report
Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
August 8, 2025
Breezy and sunny morning to walk a mile with Curry Watershed Partnerships family in honor of Surf & Sun Walk & Run fundraising and awareness campaign.
Report Details
Breezy and sunny morning to walk a mile with Curry Watershed Partnerships family in honor of Surf & Sun Walk & Run fundraising and awareness campaign. Wide beach with lots of large driftwood near the bluffs and a sandy/rocky shoreline that boosts good agate and quartz hunting. It was incredible how often the primary rock size changed along our walk from fist-size to pea gravel. It was fun to find crab molts, eelgrass pieces, and small jellies/ctenophores in the wrack line. There was a lot of boating activity in the mouth of the Rogue for a salmon tournament. Only concern was that several fires seemed to have swept across parts the driftwood piles at various times in the past.
Conditions
Temperature: 65 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Moderate. Tide Level: 1.8 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 7. Number of dogs: 2. Walking or running: 7. Other Activities: Agate hunting.
Notable Wildlife
1 rock louse
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 3. 1 cormorant and 2 unknown
View from the southern point looking north along the upper beach driftwood
View from the jetty looking south
Examining a large and active sea louse
Rachel pointing out a sea lion surfing
Beached bird
Golf ball-sized rocky substrate
Fist-sized rocky substrate
Pea gravel substrate
Sand - Smallest substrate
Sam on a perfectly built driftwood bench
Report Images
Kelly, Sam, Rachel, and Sam
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Mile 28
Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
Breezy and sunny morning to walk a mile with Curry Watershed Partnerships family in honor of Surf & Sun Walk & Run fundraising and awareness campaign.
Kelly, Sam, Rachel, and Sam
Mile 28
Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
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Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
Christmas Day on Mile 28.
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Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
This day, December 23, was the highest tide for this month.
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Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
Our beach walk with Fawn Custer, October, 1, 2018.
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Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
A beautiful sunny day.
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Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
We only saw one other person on the beach on Christmas Day.
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Mile 28
Gold Beach Fairgrounds, airport, Rogue River South Jetty
A large beach fire on Mile 28 of Gold Beach erupted today at approximately 4 p.
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