Mile 48 Report
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
October 16, 2020
The beach was quiet on this beautiful autumn day.
Report Details
The beach was quiet on this beautiful autumn day. We saw two people riding horses on the beach, which we had not seen here before and someone flying a kite. The ride was dropping toward a minus tide a few hours later. It was a Friday afternoon, which may explain why there were not as many vehicles as we saw this summer and the outgoing tide may explain why we didn't see the surfers we often see near Hubbard Creek.Much less litter than last visit. We only saw that tarp, one plastic bag, a forgotten tee shirt and a bottle cap.
Conditions
Temperature: 70 F. Wind Velocity: Moderate. Wind Direction: N. Tide Level: 4.7 feet.
Activities
Number of people: 31. Number of dogs: 2. Walking or running: 17. Playing in surf: 1. Playing in sand: 4. Sitting: 3.
Other Activities: 2 horseback riders 1flying a kite. The people climbing were on the trail up Battle Rock..
Concerns
Climbing bluffs/seastacks
Vehicles
Cars/trucks parking: 15. Cars/trucks on beach, allowed: 1.
Beached Birds
Total dead birds: 6. One large sea gull was freshly dead with only eyes and some feathers gone. A single dog tracks next to it, so a dog might have been responsible for the wound and blood on it's back, but not enough tracks or sand disturbance to suggest the dog killed it.
Wrackline Content
Small rocks, Seaweeds and seagrass, Shells, Animal casings or molts. Skeleton of a mammal about the size of a medium dog.
Natural Changes
Newly exposed roots/trees falling. The trees we saw fallen and partly green last time are now almost totally brown, so they must have been new fall in the spring.
Horse riders enjoying the beach
Riders
We noted this slide last report but did not know how recent it was. Since half the tree still had green needles last time and almost all are brown now, the slide must have happened this year.
Closer look at the tree's needles. You can see the two colored tarp in the next picture in the upper right corner.
Skeleton on the beach. I should have put something in the pic for scale, but it looked about the size of a medium size dog.
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JaneSkipLegacy
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Lovely beach walk, lots to look at, remarkably clean of both man-made and natural debris.
Skip-Jane Legacy
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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
Very little trash on the beach today. I've never seen large barnacle shells like I saw today or the clumps of shellfish in the wrack line.
Peggy Grimes
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Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Beautiful day! Sunny blue skies, calm winds and warm (Tee Shirt weather) People and dogs enjoying the day with the weather about as good as it gets here. Beaches looked clean and in good shape. It doesn't get much better than this.
Gregg Cramer
Mile 48
Beach southeast of Battle Rock, north of Hubbard Creek
Beach is mostly clean.
Skip-Jane Legacy KC
Mile 48
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
Mile 48
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