All Mile 222 Reports
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
Several types of sea vegetation in drift: Sea palm, Eelgrass, Surfgrass, kelp, Rockweed, feather boa kelp.
dderickson
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
Cloudy with on-and-off light rain; decomposing sea lion still on grate at Wade Creek -- smells pretty rank!
dderickson
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
Some portions of the beach are now exposed rock from the bluff to the shoreline, thanks to El Nino.
dderickson
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
Mild day, mostly cloudy with a few scattered showers while I was on the beach.
dderickson
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
Beautiful last day of summer, lots of people out, more rock hunters than usual.
dderickson
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
Sand is building up on high zone; still evidence of dessicated Velella velella; vehicle tracks on sand; monkeyflower growing on bluffs; driftwood fort with a missing dog poster (photo attached).
dderickson
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
The most outstanding features of this survey were the large amounts of washed-up By-the-wind sailors (Velella velella) in all the drift lines between the water's edge and the bluff, and the large amount of wood covered densely with pelagic goose barnacles.
dderickson
Mile 222
Moolack Beach N, Coal Creek, S of Wade Creek
It was a beautiful, mild but windy, sunny day.
dderickson