Mile 48 Report
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
March 6, 2025
Odd large pieces of trash near Battle Rock. Lots of bottle caps in wrack line. Many small pieces of plastic in the wrack line near Hubbard Creek. I remember my mom showing me an aluminum railing from a shipwreck sticking out of the rocks on this beach years ago when the sand was low.
Report Details
Odd large pieces of trash near Battle Rock. Lots of bottle caps in wrack line. Many small pieces of plastic in the wrack line near Hubbard Creek. I remember my mom showing me an aluminum railing from a shipwreck sticking out of the rocks on this beach years ago when the sand was low. Today I saw two pieces of aluminum pipe on the rocks in the same area.
Conditions
Temperature: 55 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Moderate. Tide Level: 0.8 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 24. Number of dogs: 5. Walking or running: 19. Sitting: 3. Other Activities: One man was panning for gold. On person and two dogs were riding in a vehicle on the beach on their way to start surfing..
Vehicles
Cars/trucks on beach, allowed: 1.
Notable Wildlife
I think I saw a couple of turkey vultures that flew up from the brush next to a small stream but I didn't see what they might have been feeding on.
Driftline Content
There were no plastic bottles, which was unusual, but there were many bottle lids. I didn't count, but I picked up maybe 25 of them. All different sizes from an inch to the inches in diameter. There were a lot of small plastic pieces near Hubbard Creek. Large trash included a truck canopy and an iron woodstove near Battle Rock.
Natural Changes
Landslides/major boulder falls. A little more sliding on the site of the big landslide from a couple years ago.
Truck canopy and other tools near the track onto the beach
Iron wood stove (and my shadow) on the beach near Battle Rock
Memorial Cross falling off Battle Rock
Newer small slide
Water seems to be making a new way down near the big landslide.
Aluminum rails? And a bunch of rope
Close up of the rails
Some evidence of recent sliding and maybe also of people climbing the bluff here
Wrack line at Hubbard Creek
On beach at Hubbard Creek
Overview of the big slide
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Odd large pieces of trash near Battle Rock. Lots of bottle caps in wrack line. Many small pieces of plastic in the wrack line near Hubbard Creek. I remember my mom showing me an aluminum railing from a shipwreck sticking out of the rocks on this beach years ago when the sand was low.
JaneSkipLegacy
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Quite a beautiful, calm, dry, fall weather day.
Gregg Cramer
Mile 48
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
A pleasant afternoon at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend.
Elaine Cramer
Mile 48
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
I was astounded by the mass of humans on the beach, so I thought I'd report it. Port Orford made plans for beach cleanups of both the dock beach and the Battle Rock beach for July 5th.
Elaine Cramer
Mile 48
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
The beach looked good today.
Peggy Grimes
Mile 48
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Seems like cheating to call this a winter report, with the weather conditions being so lovely.
Kristi Cramer
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Holiday weekend with good weather brought out a lot of people.
JaneSkipLegacy
Mile 48
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Beach was remarkably clean.
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