Tour of the Miles
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Latest Mile Reports
Mile 315 - Chapman Beach north, Chapman Point, Ecola SP
March 4, 2021 - 10:45am - tabeag
A rare rainy, windy winter day with no activity on the beach. Unsuccessfully attempted to clean up wet sand microplastics with a strainer, but the strainer grid was too small. It is difficult to clean wet sand.
Mile 204 - Driftwood Beach Wayside, Buckley Creek
March 4, 2021 - 10:45am - Jon French
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved PacWave South, OSU's long-planned wave energy collection project. As I reported in June of last year, the project will install and test wave energy collection devices six miles off the coast between Waldport and Newport, with seafloor transmission cables coming ashore underneath Driftwood...
Mile 194 - Yachats, Adobe Inn, Smelt Sands Wayside
March 4, 2021 - 9:30am - tietjenl
A blustery day on the beach today. No concerns or significant changes noted, but as I'm new to CoastWatch, I'm still taking note of the normal baselines. I spotted one Black Oystercatcher on the south end of the mile. Also noted a pair of Killdeer at the north end. Picked...