All Mile 204 Reports
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
The Driftwood Wayside parking area is scheduled to close soon for construction of onshore infrastructure for PacWave South's long-planned wave energy testing project.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved PacWave South, OSU's long-planned wave energy collection project.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
Months of winter storms and King Tides have transformed last summer's welcoming Driftwood Beach.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
One of the things that I surprisingly did not find, was litter.
Shema
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
The recent King Tides and storms have washed away the low sand dunes that formed over the summer seaward of the vegetated dunes south of Buckley Creek, which now flows onto the beach like a real creek.
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
The woman ahead of me on the path down to the beach from the Driftwood Wayside parking lot cried out "Yes!
Jon French
Mile 204
Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
Today's weather forecast called for areas of fog with a Dense Smoke Advisory because of the wildfires, but I didn't smell any smoke, just dense fog all along the beach, with hardly anyone to be seen.
Jon French