All Mile 102 Reports
Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
Both halves of this mile were mostly the same: no litter, live gulls, not-so-live kelp, bull kelp, jellies, Dungeness crabs, mussels, shell fragments, stones, gravel beds, wood pieces, some driftwood, a sea palm or two.
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Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
The bloated Steller sea lion just south of Bandon's South Jetty is gone, presumably taken by the tides.
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Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
A massive Steller sea lion washed up on the night high tide several yards from the South Jetty.
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Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
Fog shrouded the beach on the northern segment of Mile 102 at 5:30 a.
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Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
No one else was out at 5:30 on an overcast, slightly windy morning heading south from the South Jetty.
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Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
In many years of walking this stretch of Mile 102 south of the Coquille River, I've never encountered so many Black oystercatchers gathered in one spot as they were today just west of the 8th St.
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Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
The half mile north of the Coquille River was not occupied by anything other than gulls and sanderlings at about 7:30 a.
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Mile 102
Coquille River, South Jetty, Lighthouse
A seal pup hauled out at high tide on the southern segment of Mile 102 at the base of the first rocks on the South Jetty stretch.
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