Mile 212

Holiday Beach north, Moore Creek, Grant Creek
Lincoln County

Latitude: 44.574880196794
Longitude: -124.069295547630
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Holiday Beach north, Moore Creek, Grant Creek
Mile 212 Reports (24)

2020

December 25, 2020 - PhilBSB

Quiet day on the beach, Christmas and a rain/wind storm approaching.  Lots of sand has mooved off the beach and several rock fields have emerged. A number of small slumps have occured and evidence of waves washing up the bluffs several feet in some areas.  One new house appears to have...read more

  • New House
  • Slump along bluff
September 19, 2020 - dougdawson

 photo

cracks forming in cliff erosion 200ft south of  grant creek

44°34'41.7"N 124°04'10.0"W

white worm like clusters (2)

Unusual to seastar washed up

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  • white worm like clusters
  • white worm like clusters
August 12, 2020 - dougdawson
May 20, 2020 - PhilBSB

Two new bluff-top houses currently under construction.read more

  • New House under constructionin the Pacific Shores development.

2019

December 24, 2019 - PhilBSB

Relatively unchanged since the last walk.  Beach is clean and flat due to large tidal swings.read more

2018

December 30, 2018 - PhilBSB

Nice day for a walk after the recent rains and huge surf.  Not much new except the short stairway on to the bech from neighborhood acess (For full disclosure I live in the neighbohood but don't know who added this).  It was not permitted and I will continue to follow up.read more

  • bull Kelp
  • New stairway to Beach.
August 11, 2018 - PhilBSB

Warm, calm morning with a few people out enjoying the super low tides.  A number of ancient trees are currently exposed that I have not seen in the past 25 years.  Lots of sand has bee moving around over the past month.  Lots of dead crabs on the beach.  They...read more

  • Ancient tree
  • Bluff Erosion

2017

November 24, 2017 - PhilBSB

Nice late fall day and several goups enjoying the beach.  Lots of bull kelp and interesting organisms on the beach.  Some sort of egg sacks possibly.  A few birds but a fair number of people and high tide so not a lot of room for them.read more

  • Property where bluff stabilization has taken place and where stairway to the beach was removed
  • Netting tangle in driftwood in Moore Creek.
April 16, 2017 - PhilBSB

Nice day on the beach with lots of people out enjoying the low tide.  Mostly calm with surf around 4-5'.  Many rock hunters, several people with clipboards doing surveying something(?) and several families milling around.  A number of guillemots were perched in small holes near the top of the bluff and...read more

  • New drain pipe extending to beach
  • Old Stairway
  • Picnic Table

2016

December 25, 2016 - PhilBSB

I have Photos of the Rip-Rap areas and the unstable crack in the bluffread more

  • Unstable bank shoreward of crack
  • Re-stacked Rip-Rap Oct 2016

2012

July 24, 2012 - philandjan
Nice morning for a stroll on the beach, 21 others thought so too! The 15 whimbrels feeding near the water's edge were a treat, as were all the flowers- wild rose, monkeyflower, beach rocket, fireweed, silverweed, aster and angelica. A small amount of beach trash included bits of styrofoam and...read more
July 11, 2012 - philandjan
The beach was pleasant and sunny, with 11 people and one dog enjoying the morning before the afternoon fog bank came ashore. People were walking, running, sitting, flying kites and playing soccer. Sand covered the rock shelf and cobbles, and there was very little debris. Large driftwood had been used...read more
  • Wind shelter built of large driftwood, one of several near the mouth of Grant Creek.
May 18, 2012 - PhilBSB
Moved lawn mower to rocky area near the bluff and contacted State Parks to see if Beach Ranger could remove it. Too heavy for me to carry out.Contacted Phillip Johnson about riprap permit application. There seemed to be some confusion about the location. This application is likely one that was...read more
January 28, 2012 - philandjan
An unusually large number of people and a few dogs enjoyed walking on the beach on this sunny Saturday after the series of storms that the central coast has been experiencing. The driftline contained mostly plant detritus, driftwood of all sizes, and a small amount of mostly marine-derived plastic pieces...read more
  • Some of these rocks fell from the cliffs beginning last fall, and more pieces continue to fall to the beach, indicating active erosion.
  • This ancient tree stump, remaining from a 1600-year-old forest that was buried in sand, is beginning to be exposed at the surfline 5 feet above MLLW. Sand covered it during the summer.

2011

December 31, 2011 - philandjan
New Year's Eve, the first nice day after several stormy days, brought out more than the usual number of people (18) walking or jogging and enjoying the beach. It was a good day for raptor sightings, with flyovers by a Red-tailed Hawk, a Cooper's Hawk, and an adult Bald Eagle...read more
  • Fairly large sand and rockfalls and vegetation undercuts indicate continuing erosion of the bluff below houses
October 6, 2011 - philandjan
There were 11 people including 2 babies enjoying the sunny weather, walking and sitting, with 3 dogs running (chasing gulls). There was a beach hut made of driftwood just south of Moore Creek. The driftline included a few jellies, large driftwood, marine plastic debris, kelp and a large broken-up couch...read more
  • A large chunk of the cliff face separated and fell to the beach south of Grant Creek.
  • Large rocks and sand fall from the cliff north of Moore Creeek.
  • A rather massive frame for a beach hut made of driftwood replaces the one observed in June along this same stretch of beach.
June 21, 2011 - philandjan
We celebrated the last few hours of spring with a walk on a foggy, breezy but beautiful beach. Plants in bloom brightened the sand, including wild rose, sea rocket, monkeyflower, sedge, clover, yarrow, wild strawberries, silverweed and lavender sea daisies. Some large pieces of driftwood had stranded north and south...read more
  • A spiral of colorful stones was created on the north bank of Moore Creek - we added a stone.
  • A driftwood beach shelter was built along the south shore of Moore Creek, near the high tide line.
  • Significant erosion occurred below the rim of bluffs below houses built near the bluff edge.
  • Sand and rock slides below the bluff where houses have been built near the bluff edge.
March 7, 2011 - philandjan
We walked beach mile 212 today under partly sunny skies with a light SE-SSW wind and comfortable temperatures (43-47 F). We noticed numerous fairly large sand slumps eroding from the cliffs and many smaller sand slumps and rock slides. Reading the online beach reports, we see that these slumps were...read more
  • This shows the latest (3/7/11) stage of erosion of the large chunk of the sand bluff that separated from the cliff just north of Grant Creek in 2006. The vegetated top is gone, and the chunk is eroding significantly.

2010

October 14, 2010 - philandjan
We did our mile walk at a beautiful sunrise this morning. Nothing new or unusual to report, just a few gulls foraging at water's edge, four people and three dogs enjoying the cool clear weather, the usual few bits of plastic and fishing debris in the wrack line along with...read more
May 14, 2010 - philandjan
One person was on the beach, apparently rock hunting. A few birds were flying over or foraging on the beach. There were four pigeon guillemots in the surf - a few nest in burrows at the top of the cliffs along this stretch of beach. An old decomposed sea lion...read more
  • In January, 2006 a major crack appeared in the beach cliff just north of Grant Creek, separating a large chunk of the beach cliff.
  • The chunk has eroded to a vegetation-topped pinnacle.
  • One of the ancient stumps left from an earthquake centuries ago is exposed at low tide just south of Moore Creek.

2009

February 1, 2009 - MAshley
I walked north from Thiel Creek to Moore Creek. There were thousands of jellies from low tide line all the way to the cliff face. This makes it obvious that high tide is reaching the cliff face and will continue to erode the area. Adults and children on the beach,...read more
January 14, 2009 - MAshley
I walked south from Surfland subdivision to the south end of Pacific Shores subdivision. I noticed many small fresh landslides. These slides were filled with fossils. There are numerous drain pipes protruding from cliff face with running water. Certain areas of the cliff face is being eroded from the top...read more

2008

March 16, 2008 - philandjan
This is a sandy beach, with 2 creeks, Grant Creek near the north end and Moore Creek near the south end. The beach is backed by sandstone cliffs, bluffs and vegetated dunes with houses along the top of the bluffs. Grant Creek has a bridge over it, but Moore Creek...read more
  • The cormorant was stranded in the surf wash zone, but still alive - the eagle carried it to a rock and ate it.
  • This chunk of cliff separated in January 2006 and is still eroding.
  • This shows the bluff overlooking the beach on Mile 212, with strata representing thousands of years.
  • This shows the general nature of the beach on Mile 212 at low tide, with houses on the bluff overlooking the beach.

2007

March 12, 2007 - philandjan
The beach sand has been scoured away by winter storms, exposing cobbles and flat mudstone reef structure, with fossils and agates. Small sand and rock slides, lots of water coming from drainage pipes. Gulls, a vulture and an eagle flew over, shorebirds skimmed the surf edge. One freshly dead rhinoceros...read more