Tuesday, May 10, 2016

May 7, 2016 Mile 262

I hiked Mile 262 from McKillips Park at 4:20 in order to arrive at my north OP for Cape Kiwanda to survey Brown Pelicans from 5-7 p.m. I had dropped Johnny off at the Cape parking lot and he hiked up to our south OP to watch for Pelicans from there.

I took a few photos of the eroding cliff that I have photographed each time plus the rocky beach now that the ocean has washed the sand off and exposed lots of rocks. My camera quit working so I looked in my camera case for the spare battery... and discovered I'd left it at home in the battery charger. So no more photos.








The dune on this north side now has a steep cliff to beach instead of a gradual drop.


This was Mother's Day weekend and there were 11 cars on the beach in allowed areas, 2 beyond the allowed areas but they could not have known that because the signs saying no vehicles beyond this point were completely buried in sand. I'll go back and take more photos another time.

I climbed the dune and watched the Peregrines, a pair of Black Oystercatchers, whales, and finally several groups of from 1-3 pelicans each for a total of 10 birds. Some were flying northward and some southward.

I left at 7 and walked back to McPhillips Park.