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Definitely a beach to visit for low tide! We walked up and down our mile and fell in love. So many cool tide pools, tons of awesome rocks, great collection of driftwood.*Bonus scavenger hunt item: find the heavy piece of metal from Portland

Conditions

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

Human Activities

Number of people: 30. Number of dogs: 15. Walking or running: 20. Playing in sand: 5. Sitting: 10. Photography: 1. Tidepooling: 10. Other Activities: 3 cyclists, a few bird watchers with binoculars.. It was quite a mellow beach day. Everyone was behaving themselves.

Notable Wildlife

There were many nesting seagulls on jockey cap and silver point, and a crow drinking water from Clayton Creek. A couple crabs in the tide pools, many sea anemones, and several happy starfish in the Silver Point cave.

Driftline Content

Seaweeds and seagrass, Animal casings (e.g., crab, shrimp molt).

Actions & Comments

This bit of beach is so lovely! I brought a bag to clean up trash and only found a few items. It was so nice.

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Cellophane worm casings
Hugging Dungeness crabs and an ochre sea star
Cool rock striations. The are many great outcrops on this beach. You can really see time.
Cool piece of (VERY HEAVY) metal that seems to say "Portland Oregon"
Blue mussels covered with barnacles and a marine snail, (orange striped dogwinkle)
Beautiful anemones and sea stars living their best life
MORE anemones and sea stars!
Silver Point cave at low tide
Happy sea star
SO MANY CASINGS!

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Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

June 29, 2024

It was a busy pre-holiday weekend at the beach.

Deborah Jensen

Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

April 13, 2024

A mild morning walk on mile 311 during an outgoing tide revealed 5 species of nudibranch, 3 species of anemone, and an impressive flock of 150 surfbirds that landed in the rocky outcroppings between Jockey Cap and Silver Point.

sultanym

Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

September 9, 2022

What a beautiful morning at mile 311!

browneyed

Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

August 14, 2022

Today, we observed a total of 896 Ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) at the northern rocky outcroppings exposed by the low tides at Silver Point.

sultanym

Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

July 31, 2022

Today, we observed a total of 1388 Ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) at the northern rocky outcroppings exposed by the low tides at Silver Point.

sultanym

Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

July 17, 2022

Today, we observed a whopping total of 1,059 Ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) at the northern rocky outcroppings exposed by the low tides at Silver Point.

sultanym

Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

June 18, 2022

Today, we observed 464 Ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) at the northern rocky outcroppings exposed by the low tides at Silver Point.

sultanym

Mile 311

Jockey Cap, Silver Pt, S Cannon Beach, Tolovana Beach

June 4, 2022

A morning walk on mile 311 from Tolovanna Wayside to Silver Point/Jockey Cap revealed a high relative abundance of ochre sea stars (Pisaster ochraceus) in rocky tidepools during the outgoing tide.

sultanym