December 6, 2020 - highamm
Overall good conditions no violations. Groups of people and dogs on the beach. Noted a couple dead fish and 1 bird. Photo's attached.read more
November 2, 2020 - highamm
Beach and shoreline were clean with little activity. No apparent violations to report.read more
May 4, 2018 - wilsonriverhs
April 23, 2018 - wilsonriverhs
Groups of people were playing ball and picnicking. This was the spring break for some schools.read more
March 19, 2018 - wilsonriverhs
There is a beach front house at 6th street that has a back deck sliding down the grass dune due to dune erosion.read more
December 14, 2015 - Shalom
Villa vacation rental after storm of December 2015read more
October 28, 2015 - Shalom
King Tide at Saltair Creek.read more
May 14, 2015 - Shalom
Longnose Lancetfish beached near Saltair creek, discovered near high tide line, about 2 hours after low tide.read more
April 9, 2015 - Shalom
A couple of hours before high tide, between Saltair Creek and the Rockaway wayside. Clear sunny day. Millions of Velella velella. Also a lot of things on the beach that had been out at sea for quite awhile, covered with pellagic barnacles and algae.read more
March 14, 2015 - Rich@TwinRocks
Salmon on the beach at Twin Rocks at Heitmiller Creek 45.594989, -123.948490.One dead. One alive in a few inches of water struggling upstream towards a logjam.
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March 8, 2015 - Shalom
An application has been filed to construct riprap at a property where the house should never have been allowed to be built in 2008.I hope we can get a hearing and stop the installation of riprap for this extravagant vacation rental --
https://www.vacasa.com/unit.php?UnitID=157 When the house was built in...
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December 3, 2014 - Shalom
Two hours after high tide -- there are DOZENS of dead birds on the beach today. I lost count. (See photos.)The wrack line contained lots of tiny bits of plastic, as well as larger, more-recent plastic trash.Found one piece of plastic with Japanese writing on it (see photo).Many pieces of...
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November 5, 2014 - Shalom
Dead starfish
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February 7, 2014 - Shalom
Outgoing tide (2.5 hrs before low tide). No breeze, ocean sounds muffled. About 5" snow on the beach above tide line. More snow on its way.
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February 6, 2014 - Shalom
During snowstorm. About 5" snow on the beach. Slush where waves met the snow.
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January 13, 2014 - Shalom
About an hour before high tide this morning, lots of storm debris mostly included logs and twigs, eel grass, some bull kelp, a few jellyfish, one dying fish. One big jumble of rope with 3 floats with some large mussels attached. Seagulls & crows. Unusual was the discovery of many...
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July 4, 2013 - Shalom
Egg case, I think from a "big skate," just after high tide, about a foot long.
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July 1, 2013 - Shalom
Barnacle tree update, one day later, at high tide: Witnessed gulls picking at remains of barnacles on tree. It's entirely stripped of barnacles. Broken barnacle shells along tide line.
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June 30, 2013 - Shalom
One hour before low tide, near Twin Rocks. Near tideline was a 45-foot-long tree, branches and roots long-since cut off. It was covered on one side, top to bottom, with live gooseneck barnacles. The barnacles at the root end of the tree were huge, some with 3" shells (capitulum?) and...
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January 3, 2009 - Rich@TwinRocks
First sunny day in a while. Nice kite flying weather. 9 people and 5 dogs on the beach. A few people sorting through the exposed stones. Lots of seaweed and kelp at the driftline. Lots of new timber.
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January 2, 2009 - Rich@TwinRocks
Bull Whip kelp on the beach. Lots of exposed shells and stones at the beach. New timber washed up here and there. A lonely looking pelican standing watch over a dead pelican.
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November 23, 2008 - Rich@TwinRocks
A beautiful day at the coast in November. Lots of new timber has drifted in and been exposed.Sandpipers at the surf line.One dead pelican and a few jellyfish.
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November 1, 2008 - Rich@TwinRocks
Approximately 300 brown pelicans on the beach on a windy cloudy day. New riprap/shoreline protection below house immediately north of trailer park at Mile 291, with application posted for permanent riprap repair.
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