December 9, 2019 - JLcoasties
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October 13, 2019 - JLcoasties
Human activity - 24 people and 7 dogs. 15 people walking, 4 playing in the sand, 2 sitting and 3 surfing.
Shoreline wildlife - 5 dead birds. 4 birds can not be identified due to the condition of the carrcases, the 5th bird can be identified but we do not know...read more
July 19, 2019 - JLcoasties
The major concerns are the number of fires involving the logs that are piled high up on the beach and the quanity of jelly pieces on the beach was much above anything we have ever seen.read more
May 22, 2019 - JLcoasties
Today was a bit chilly with the cloud cover but is was a great day on the beach. The natural change processes of the beach were evident from the last two months. We do not have any concerns about human activity impacting the beach except for the debris that washes...read more
March 17, 2019 - JLcoasties
It was a nice day, but windy, with many people walking or playing with dogs. We monitered the dogs to see if there was any disturbance of sea birds and we did not see any. The number of large jellies on the beach was substancially higher than we have seen...read more
March 10, 2019 - Beachwalker203
The beach was unusually clean of debris.read more
January 18, 2019 - JLcoasties
The beach had a lot of marine debris such as polypropelene rope, fuel lines, expended shot gun/ fire works shells and other items that had washed in. We filled two 3-gallon buckets with debris.read more
August 25, 2017 - Beachwalker203
Quiet day on the beach, quiet ocean. Did see fairly fresh bear scat near the wrack though. That was unusual.read more
June 24, 2017 - Beachwalker203
Found burned out campfire log, also area littered with cans, etc.read more
May 19, 2017 - Unbound
I am including photos of each direction of the beach as well as the minimal trash found this round, a setup someone created with chairs & drift wood as well as dead seal with turkey vultures.read more
August 4, 2015 - nanumoore
6 dead Common murres found between Buckley Creek and north beach access of Sandpiper Village. I had noted 3 last week.read more
July 5, 2015 - nanumoore
Two significant fireworks hot spots with sporadic other ares. Multiple (about 80) small red rubbery plastic tubes, thin plastic streamers, and firecrackers. People on the beach were walking, looking for agates and some cleaning up after the previous night party. Findings include small amounts of kelp, partial clear jelly fish...
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April 1, 2015 - nanumoore
The storms blowing in from the west over the last few days left much debris covered with pelagic barnacles. Some of which are confirmed by Fawn Custer to be Tsunami debris. Velella velella covered the tide line as well.Fawn collected Tsunami related debris samples.read more
March 21, 2015 - nanumoore
Spring break brings greater numbers of people to play and walk on the beach. During March rafts of California Seal Lions have been spotted and heard in the near waters. One mostly decomposed Sea Lion noted n the beach over this last week. A sea star (Pisaster brevispina) was noted...
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February 18, 2015 - nanumoore
Large California sea lion cluster seen and heard in ocean on Mile 203 west of Sandpiper Village 2/17/15. According to Nancy Edwards who provided telescope viewing they formed a "Pacific Sea Lion Raft." The sea lions were calling and raising their flippers in the air. Their calls could be heard...
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January 27, 2015 - nanumoore
This was a quiet day on the beach with little human activity. Very little trash noted. New boards placed at South Beach access. There did not appear to be any new bird deaths, although the salmon and longnose skate seen 2 days ago were new observations. Crab and Pacific Razor...
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December 22, 2014 - nanumoore
This was the second King Tide day with much debris on the beach. I only went a short distance yet noted at lease 5 dead partially decomposed birds. No people or animals were noted.
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June 11, 2014 - Wcharland
Not too much going on, three people walking the beach and one dog. In the tide line was mostly shell bits and a few molted crabs / crustacean remains. Also, some stones. Way higher up was two beams of tsunami debris out of the tide. They were land construction and...
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May 30, 2014 - Unbound
Picked up mostly plastic pieces. Very windy on beach. Did not see any other people out.
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November 15, 2008 - Sandpiper
This was a perfect morning for beach walking, no wind, warm and sunny. It appears that the recent storms have washed some of the sand from the beach. The beach was wet sand entirely up to the fore dune.There was one adult seal carcass that appeared to have washed onto...
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August 7, 2008 - Sandpiper
Lots of sandpipers have been scouring the sand, I've uploaded some pictures of some unusual sand formations from recent wind, and some streams of water leaving rust colored stains on the sand. This water seems to be seeping up from the ground at the top of the beach or coming...
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June 27, 2008 - Sandpiper
There is nothing unusual to report, the beach is very clean with little debris and there have been no problems with erosion. The sand has shifted somewhat from the northern end of the beach to the southern end, there are more small dunes on the southern end and evidence of...
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March 10, 2008 - Sandpiper
Walking this mile everyday, I notice that the sand is constantly shifting. By March the sand has nearly covered the driftwood, which includes large tree trunks that were exposed and visible all along the fore dune in January. On most days we see seals swimming in a southerly direction, sticking...
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November 7, 2007 - Sandpiper
A large number of pelicans were flying both north and south and sitting on the water beyond the breakers. Surf scoters were visible close to the shore. Many groups of sandpipers were feeding along the surf line.
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July 15, 2007 - Sandpiper
This was my first report for Coastwatch so I was locating the end points of the mile and taking note of the terrain. The weather was very warm so there were a lot of people on the beach enjoying the day.This is a long stretch of sandy beach with grassy...
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