Wrack Line 2022

April 20, 2022

View over big drifted logs and driftwood, across cobbles and beach sand to the surf zone and a headland in the distance.
From the zone of big wood
This image labels the surf zone (a zone of wet sand and cobbles), the wrack line (with a fair amount of driftwood), a zone of bare cobbles, and a zone of big storm-driven drift logs.
Fragment of an empty mussel shell (portion of both valves) and another white shell fragment (unidentified) on a bed of wet cobbles
Shell fragments in the cobbles
Drifted tuft of a branched coralline, maybe Bossiella, on wet cobbles.
A tuft of drift coralline
Empty green false jingle shell, topside up, on wet sand
Pododesmus macroschisma, green false jingle
Empty green false jingle shell, flipped over to expose the underside, on wet sand
Same P. macroschisma shell flipped over to show the undersurface
A piece of dark driftwood protruding from the sand. Small, unidentified green seaweed hitchhiker. View is landward over beach sand. Rocks in the distance.
Drifters, stuck in the sand
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April 19, 2022

From above, a view out to sea, down across the cobbles, sand, sufzone, and beyond. Partly cloudy skies and a headland to the north.
Wrack line and big wood up in the cobbles
Closeup on a knot. Several lines tied together in a substantial knot, on wet cobble.
Lost knot
Soccer ball, a little worn, but still inflated, on wet cobbles
Chelsea FC
Bright orange eroded foam fragment on dry cobbles
Float fragment
Top of the upper shell of the green false-jingle, placed on a bed of acorn barnacles.
Pododesmus macrochisma placed on barnacles for a better view
Inside of the upper shell of the green false-jingle, placed on a bed of acorn barnacles.
Same P. macrochisma shell turned over to expose the inside
Three cobble cairns in the foreground, the view southwest over the cobble zone, onto sand, the out to the surf zone and beyond. A few offshore rocks in the distance and mostly cloudy skies.
Cobble cairns
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April 9, 2022

The view is straight out to sea to a seastack silhouette. Swash zone in the foreground, surf zone, then moody skies above. Sunlight peeking through the top right of the scene.
Haystack Rock
Sunlight plays on the cape in the mid distance. Swash and surf zones in the foreground. Moody skies.
Cape Kiwanda
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March 22, 2022

View to the north, mostly a headland in the distance and it's reflection in the reflective surface of wet sand in swash zone.
Hug Point in the mirror
Out on a misty headland, just above water level, view to the south where several headlands are shrouded in mist.
Hug Point looking south, into the mist
view north along a lonely sandy beach. Coastal mountains on the middle-left, swash zone on the lower- right. Misty, cloudy skies.
Squinting to make out the headland to the north
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February 24, 2022

View down the beach along the meeting of the cobble zone and beach sand. Cloudy day and a dark headland in the distance.
Where cobble and sand meet
Moon jelly morning
Moon jelly
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February 23, 2022

Long stretch of sandy beach with two sea stacks in the distance. Cloudless day with some sun gleam on the wet beach sand.
Beach view to the south
An eroded free left rock scallop valve, outer surface exposed, on wet beach sand.
Crassadoma gigantea, rock scallop, as I found it
An eroded free left rock scallop valve, flipped over to exposed the inner surface, on wet beach sand.
Same shell, flipped over to expose the inside surface
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February 1, 2022

A solo wad from a shotgun shell, the view is over the beach and out to the surf zone
The wad is ever-present
closeup on the drift line with a 15 cm rule for scale. Spruce needles, bark fragments, other terrestrial plant material, and plastic fragments.
Mostly terrestrial material and plastic fragments
Lost aqua-colored and white braided nylon lines, probably fishing gear.
Lost lines
Maybe a dozen plastic foam sheets encased in a cube-shaped rusted iron frame of about 1 meter x 1 meter. It's washed way up in the cobbles, just below the big wood at the moth of a small stream.
Industrial strength float
Pink cut rose washed up in the cobbles
Cut flowers are morse common than you might think
A mangled trap buoy with a bit of line still attached. The view s over the buoy, down the beach to the surf zone.
Lost float/buoy
Thin red blades of Pyropia nereocystis, on a bull bull kelp stipe. (Washed up on wet sand.)
Bull kelp nori
A drift bull kelp float and blades on wet sand and cobbles
Drift bull kelp
A cluster of about 30-40 Nucella eggs washed up onto the beach
Sea oats (Nucella eggs)
Whale jaw bone (partial). The view is up the beach to the north. Cliffs and forest to the right; surf zone on the left.
Bone from the upper jaw (young humpback)
Empty clear plastic water bottle with a red lid
Too much of this
Just the carapace on wet beach sand
Dungeness carapace
On wet beach sand. View off over the beach to the surf zone. Moody, out of focus skies.
Moon jelly remains
The exposed inside of the shell with a deep purple hinge. This is a closeup on wet sand.
Crassadoma gigantea, rock scallop