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I walked this mile today and just wanted to note the abundance of newborn sea stars inside Lost Boy Cave and the surrounding tide water. I have just never seen them this small before in the wild!

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Temperature: 60 F. Cloud Cover: Foggy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Wind Direction: NW. Tide Level: -0.9 feet.

Activities

Other Activities: Lots of tourist traffic..

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Smallest starfish ever!
Newborn starfish!
We placed stranded sea stars from middle of beach upside down and returned them to tidepools.
Shallow tide pool full of baby sea stars!
Slack tide inside of LBC.
Baby starfishes with adult.

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EJD

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Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

May 25, 2024

Beach clean.

Kathleen Krall

Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

March 22, 2024

Large recent slide just beneath a Radar Rd.

Denise Harrington

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Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

June 16, 2021

Fairly crowded for a weekday.

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Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

August 4, 2020

I walked this mile today and just wanted to note the abundance of newborn sea stars inside Lost Boy Cave and the surrounding tide water.

EJD

Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

May 15, 2020

Beach quite clean despite being popular.

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Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

May 26, 2019

Increase in human activity, new path along bottom of cliff.

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Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

August 18, 2018

Staircase handrails deteriorating.

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Mile 282

Lost Boy Cave, Short Beach

July 9, 2017

Increased human and dog activity at this beach, which has no bathroom facility at the trailhead or on the beach.

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