All Mile 204 Reports
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
The year's first beach walk in shirt sleeves, a balmy 60 degrees!
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
Driftwood Beach Wayside remains closed for construction of OSU's PacWave South wave energy project, however the drilling rigs have now been removed from the parking area, as have the sound buffering shipping containers that lined the site.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
I did not see any additional erosion or water damage from the few yards I accessed
Shema
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
I walked down to Driftwood Beach about an hour after the morning's King Tide.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
After the weekend's King Tides and wind, rain, sleet, hail, thunder and lightning, sun breaks, and beautiful cumulonimbus sunsets (with NOAA predicting 55 mph gusts for tonight), Driftwood Beach was sunny and calm this morning.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
The continued closure of Driftwood Wayside for OSU's PacWave wave energy testing project means that today's Mile 204 walk was more like three miles, with few people on the beach despite this being a beautiful sunny day.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
With the closure of the Driftwood Wayside parking area for construction of OSU's PacWave South wave energy testing project, hardly anyone was on the beach despite this being a beautiful summer weekend.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
Construction has begun on OSU's PacWave South wave energy testing project at Driftwood Beach State Recreation Site (see my previous reports).
Jon French