Mile 338 Report
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
December 25, 2016
We had a sunny day for a Christmas Day beach walk.
Report Details
We had a sunny day for a Christmas Day beach walk. Our mile was very clean. There were the usual sandpipers making their way along the tideline with a dozen or so gulls.
Conditions
Temperature: 45 F. Cloud Cover: Partly Cloudy. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Wind Direction: SE. Tide Level: 5.5 feet.
Activities
Number of people: 5. Number of dogs: 6. Walking or running: 5.
Vehicles
Cars/trucks parking: 5. Cars/trucks on beach, allowed: 4.
Notable Wildlife
Friends of ours were on the beach by the Peter Iredale, one mile south of our mile, and saw a sea lion hauled out on the sand. It was not being disturbed.
Wrackline Content
Small rocks, Seaweeds and seagrass, Animal casings or molts.
Natural Changes
Major cracks appearing in bluffs, Visible retreat of solid bluff.
Randy and Beth
CoastWatcher
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Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
walked part of this mile and picked up approximately 40 pounds of debris that has come in with the high tides. there was a lot of driftwood of all sizes, plus a high concentration of very small pieces of wood.
MICHELLE SCHWEGMANN
Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
Scattered stones appearing over the normally all-sand beach; erosion from king tides on the foredune
Beth Kandoll
Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
A very quiet day on our beach mile; a waning gibbous moon greeted us as we started our mile and cirrus clouds were on the horizon.
Beth Kandoll
Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
A very clean mile with only 4 other people sharing the beach with us.
Beth Kandoll
Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
An unusually large concentration of driftwood today; the dried velella velella were in the drift line and higher on the beach; along with the usual crab, mussel and crab shell there were some small shells unusual to our mile; picking up debris on our walk back south, there was an abundance of plastic bottle caps sans bottles.
Beth Kandoll
Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
The beach had more driftwood and some bullwhip kelp which we haven't seen lately.
Beth Kandoll
Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
A warm second day of fall on mile 338 with a slight mist from low hanging fog.
Beth Kandoll
Mile 338
Clatsop Spit, Jetty Lagoon, Fort Stevens SP
The wind would at times moves fog across parts of the beach from a cloud bank offshore.
Beth Kandoll