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| Colorful signs now mark beach sites so rescue crews can find people more easily. |
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| These offshore rock outcroppings must only appear at a minus tide as we had never seen them before. |
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| Sand is gone from much of the beach leaving a rocky bottom. |
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| A beached and broken crab pot |
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| The dune is now a vertical cliff to the beach |
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| The Cape and Haystack Rock in the distance |
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| It's difficult to see in this photo but there were zillions of tiny creatures darting around and attaching to this underwater rock in a tide pool isolated from the ocean... for now. Our CoastWatch volunteer coordinator, Fawn Custer, told me these are a type of Mysid shrimp: Bermudamysis speluncola; Opossum shrimp |
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| The "no vehicles beyond this point" signs are fighting a losing battle now that the ocean has receded so far from the dune, or rather has stolen so much sand that the dune is now way back from the ocean. |
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| Once isolated by water, this "castle" formation is now accessible from the rocky shore. |
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| And 3 people with their 2 dogs were climbing all over it. |
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| This is "my" mile of Oregon beach, looking north. Cape Lookout is way off in the distance. |
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| The cape is being eroded by the relentless ocean |
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| "my" mile looking north again across the exposed rocks |
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| photo from same spot as above, looking west |
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| The dune now has a sheer drop to the beach |
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| This gull was feasting on a dead crab |
It was beautiful weather, cloudy and warm. It started to sprinkle just as I left.
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| The resident Peregrine Falcon kept watch the entire time I walked his beach. |
