Mile 48 Report
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
January 14, 2021
This visit was just a day after a series of king tides and heavy rain.
Report Details
This visit was just a day after a series of king tides and heavy rain. More logs on the beach than usual and one massive new landslide. I asked a two of the few people I met on the beach about the "sea pickles" in the drift line and nobody knew what they were. As I was getting ready to write this report I saw an episode of Oregon Field Guide that mentioned them: Pyrosomes. I guess they are a new thing on the Oregon Coast
Conditions
Temperature: 44 F. Cloud Cover: Sunny. Wind Velocity: Calm/Light. Tide Level: 4.1 feet.
Human Activities
Number of people: 4. Number of dogs: 2. Walking or running: 4.
Dead Fish or Invertebrates
Unusual concentration. Lots of pyrosomes. Had never seen them before.
Driftline Content
Small rocks, Seaweeds and seagrass, Wood pieces, Land-based debris (picnics, etc.), Marine debris (plastic, styrofoam, etc. washing in from the sea), Styrofoam, Ocean-based debris (from fishing boats, ship trash, etc.). Lots of trash today--and I forgot to bring a trash bag...again! I filled my whole backpack and only picked up the biggest, worst pieces. Plastic water bottles, fishing floats, rope, and small pieces of plastic everywhere.
Natural Changes
Landslides/major boulder falls, Newly exposed roots/trees falling. Big slide that went way back from the shoreline. pics to be included
Sunrise over Port Orford Beach and one of the many new logs on the beach after the king tides
One of the many Pyrosomes in the drift line.
New Landslide. This was big and went way back into the woods. Maybe 30 or 40' wide and it looked like a 15' high sheer wall about 30' back toward the highway.
New Landslide
New Landslide
New Landslide
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Quite a beautiful, calm, dry, fall weather day.
Gregg Cramer
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
A pleasant afternoon at the beginning of the Labor Day weekend.
Elaine Cramer
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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
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
The beach looked good today.
Peggy Grimes
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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
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Beach was remarkably clean.
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
This was an exceptionally warm Saturday so there were more people on the beach than I usually see but everyone was well behaved and loving the rare chance to be on the beach (and even a few brave souls in the water) without multiple layers of coats.
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