Wrack line 2014

December 22, 2014

Brandt's cormorant carcass resting on the sand.
Brandt’s cormorant
A lost salmon flasher amongst the sea wrack.
Salmon gear
A Cassin's auklet carcass and a lost plastic bottle of shrimp scent rest among the sea wrack
Scent; Cassin’s auklet
A rhinoceros auklet carcass rests on the sand.
Rhinoceros auklet
A northern fulmar carcass rests on the sand.
Northern Fulmar
A lost buoy rests on the sand.
2-lug buoy
Mussel, pelagic barnacles, and a lost Uroko buoy in the swash zone.
Mussel, pelagic barnacles, and a Uroko buoy
Lost salmon/steelhead gear from upriver rests on the sand.
Lil’ Corky
A buck silver or coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch carcass rests just above the swash.
Coho
A short length of flexible pipe or tubing rests on the sand.
flexible plastic tube
A lost freshwater bobber from upriver rests on the sand among sea wrack.
Freshwater gear
A fat gaper Tresus capax shell fragment featuring the chondrophore rests on rain-dimpled sand,
Fat gaper chondrophore
A large cobble partially covered by a bull kelp holdfast rests on the sand.
Good-sized rock dragged ashore on a bull kelp holdfast
A drift glass bottle rolling around in the swash.
No messaage
A broken polystyrene float rests on the sand.
Float
Center-hole polystyrene float rest on the sand among sea wrack.
Styrene float with pelagic barnacles
An orange caution cone rolling around in the swash.
Caution
Lost marker buoy partially buried in the sand.
Buoy
Lost Uruko float and its line.
2-lug Buoy
Center-hole polystyrene float rest on the sand among sea wrack.
Styrene float
A disposable lighter resting on rain-dimpled sand.
Lighter
A plastic spacer rests on rain-dimpled sand.
Bead
A five gallon plastic bucket, converted into something like a DYI bait bucket or trap, rests on thee sand among sea wrack.
Bait bucket?
A Cassin's auklet carcass rests on the sand.
Cassin’s auklet
A empty snack bag labeled in script rests on the sand.
Snack in any language
A tin of chewing tobacco rests on rain-dimpled sand.
Chew
A hand-held bull kelp holdfast with a rock fragment it has dragged ashore.
Rock fragment on a bull kelp holdfast
Plastic dog bowl resting upside down on the sand.
Doggie dinner bowl?
Silicon applicator tube in a language I can't read resting on rain-dimpled sand.
I’m gonna need a translator
A piece of bubble wrap packing material and a plastic fragment rest of the sand.
Packing
A fragment of a flourescent light bulb rising on the sand along with a couple smaller plastic fragment and sea wrack.
Lighting
An empty and drifted razor clam Siliqua patula shell, with most of its periostracum peeled away, rests on the sand.
Pacific razor clam
A plastic pill bottle rests on rain-dimpled sand.
Pill hotel
A lost SANSHIN-KAKO buoy, somewhat encrusted, resting on the sand.
2-lug buoy
Dungeness crab Metacarcinus magister carapace resting on the sand right side up.
Dungeness test
Gaper clam Tresus shell, with a fragment broke out, rests on the sand. Exterior surface exposed.
Fat gaper
A lost recreational crab trap rests on the sand. Surf zone in the background. Clear sky.
Recreational crab trap gone missing
Empty energy drink can resting on the sand among sea wrack.
Monster Energy
Drift line at the tip top of the drift composed mostly of conifer needles and other terrestrial material. Above the line, rain-dimpled sand.
Needles in the drift line
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November 9, 2014

A central Oregon beachscape featuring driftwood resting up in the cobble zone, a forested headland in the distance.
Driftwood on the cobbles
A disposable plastic tampon applicator rests on the cobbles with some small driftwood.
Applicator
A spent wad from a shotgun shell rests in the cobbles among some small driftwood.
Spent wad
Both valves of a drifted razor clam shell, both chipped and eroded, rest on the sand.
Razor clam
Empty drifted cellophane tube worm Spiochaetopterus costarum casings (I think) resting in a line of small drifted conifer needles, pieces of wood, and plastic fragments.
Cellophane tube worm casings
A drifted terrestrial plant root fragment rests on the cobbles.
Mini root wad
Closeup of a fragment (less than half) of an eccentric sand dollar Dendraster excentricus shell resting on the sand.
Eccentric sand dollar
Closeup of an empty and drifted Bodega tellin Megangulus bodegensis shell, one valve only, resting on the sand.
Tellin
Closeup of both valves of a razor clam Siliqua patula shell, with one valve mostly buried under the sand. The visible valve is chipped and eroded.
Razor clam
A beetle runs across cobbles onto sand.
Beetle
A fragment of thin nylon line rests on the sand-rock interface at the back of the beach.
Line
A small plastic tube with a threads on one end rests on the cobbles among woody terrestrial material.
Plastic
A drifted plastic bottle cap rests on the cobbles among small driftwood.
Bottle cap
Closeup on a plastic lighter resin on the cobbles.
Lost lighter
A drifted mole crab Emerita analoga carapace, exterior surface exposed, resting on the sand.
Mole crab carapace
A beachscape featuring a cobble cairn in the foreground, beach in the mid-ground, and the surf zone in the distance. Cloudy sky with rain.
Cairn
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November 7, 2014

Closeup of a beached moon jelly Aurelia labiata fragment resting on the sand. Surf zone in the background. Clear sky.
Jelly blob
A roundish polystyrene float with a central plastic-lined hole rests on the beach. Beach and surf zone in the background. Clear sunny sky.A roundish polystyrene float with a central plastic-lined hole rests on the beach. Beach and surf zone in the background. Clear sunny sky
Float
A common murre carcass, breast meat eaten, rests on the sand. A single dog footprint near the feet.
Common murre
A drift mass of eelgrass Zostera marina (mostly) rests on the sand in bright sunlight.
Mostly eelgrass Zostera marina
Closeup of a beached Pacific sea nettle jellyfish Chrysaora fuscescens resting on the sand.
Pacific sea nettle Chrysaora fuscescens
A beached moon jelly Aurelia labiata rests on the sand.
Moon jelly Aurelia
A fairly intact Cassin's auklet carcass resting on its back on the sand.
Cassin’s auklet
A long tangled bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana drift mass on beach sand. Surf zone in the background. Clear sky.
This bull kelp mass was 112 feet long!
A heavy mass of bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana stipes and scores of holdfasts resting on the sand.
All stipes and holdfasts
Remnant drift bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana holdfast clinging to a rock resting on the sand
Has enough grip to drag large cobbles and small boulders onto the beach
Closeup of a beached Pacific sea nettle jellyfish Chrysaora fuscescens resting on the sand.
Pacific sea nettle Chrysaora fuscescens
Closeup of a beached moon jelly Aurelia labiata resting on the sand.
Moon jelly Aurelia
A northern fulmar carcass rests on its back on the sand.
Northern fulmar
A beverage bottle 3/4 full of an inscrutable liquid rests on the sand in front of a drifted mass of eelgrass Zostera marina.
Plastic
A mix of jelly fragments and drift eelgrass Zostera marina resting on the sand.
Sloppy driftline
A bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana drift mass partially buried in the sand.
Bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana
A lost marker buoy rests on the sand. Beach and surf zone in the background. Clear sunny sky.
Float
A plastic nursery pot rests on the sand.
Pot
A Cassin's auklet carcass with the breast meat eaten rests on its back on the sand.
Cassin’s auklet
Bird tracks, probably gull tracks in the sand.
Tracks
One valve of a Nuttall's cockle Clinocardium nuttallii shell, exterior surface exposed, rests on the sand.
Nuttall’s cockle Clinocardium nuttallii
Shale with piddock burrows
A drifted pumpkin rests on the beach near a driftwood stump.
Halloween leftover
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September 29, 2014

Unidentified alcid
Gull and raindrop tracks in the sand
Unidentified alcid
Common murre
California gull
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June 14, 2014

Line design
Dowa float
Shelter
Spatula
Plastic bits in the driftline
True love
Hey, I’ve been looking for one of these
Insole
Float
Green bottle
Line
Tracks
Vial
Ladder
Makeshift float
Flip flop remnant
Float
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June 13, 2014

Sargassum Sargassum muticum
Rockweed
Giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera and surfgrass
Rock scallop
Closeup on a small clump of drift Fucus resting on the sand.
Rockweed Fucus
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June 12, 2014

Sargassum Sargassum muticum
Lots of pelagic gooseneck barnacles Lepas attached to a beached rubber tire (still on the rim. Beach and the surf zone in the background. Cloudy gray sky.
Bridgestone
Surfgrass, rockweed, and a Pacific mole crab
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May 16, 2014

Line
graceful lines of Phyllospadix in the wrack line
Drift surfgrass Phyllospadix
Over a dozen large pelagic barnacles Lepas attached to a beached Bridgestone rubber tire still on the rim.
Bridgestone
Hydroid
Toothbrushes are pretty common
Drifted bull kelp stipe covered in pelagic gooseneck barnacles Lepas rests on the sand.
Lepas on a bull kelp stipe.
Hydroid
Dog bowl?
Thill float- lost steelhead gear.
Feathers, surfgrass, and plastic bits.
Cut flowers are pretty common in the drift
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May 3, 2014

Rough keyhole limpet
Float
Eccentric sand dollar
Inaba Kasen float
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March 22, 2014

Snowy plover
Pacific razor clam
Eccentric sand dollar
Nuttall’s cockle
California mussel
Fat gaper condrophore
Nuttall”s cockle
theoutershores
Three-spined stickleback
Closeup of a beached Pacific sea nettle jellyfish Chrysaora fuscescens resting on the sand.
Sea nettle
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January 1, 2014

Pacific herring, age 1
Jelly blob
Marbled murrelet
Three-spined stickleback
Gull
Jelly blob
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