May 1, 2017
Drift line loaded with Velella
Macrocystis pyrifera, some Velella too
Bouquet remnant
Want a fork for that Velella salad?
Sturdy cairn, nine cobbles high, what’s your best?
Departing with a Dungeness scrap
Low tide landmark
Tumbled from the forest above
Feather boa kelp, Egregia menziesii
Sargassum, Sargassum muticum
Delicate epiphytes on a bull kelp stipe
Rough keyhole limpet, Diodora aspera
Fish tub
Terrestrial beetles sometimes end up in the drift line (Dictyoptera?
April 30, 2017
A Velella and Emerita drift line
Bladder chain, Stephanocystis osmundacea
Velella garden
Newly beached Velella velella
Bladder chain, Stephanocystis osmundacea
Velella, stranded
Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Feather boa kelp, Egregia menziesii
March 18, 2017
Drift line detail
Dungeness crab, Metacarcinus magister carapace
Red rock crab, Cancer productus, nice shell barnacle too
Pinching claw, Dungeness crab
Ear tag
California mussel, Mytilus californianus
Drift bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Encrusted with pelagic barnacles
Detail, pelagic goose barnacles, Lepas anatifera, on a drift log
Shell, rough keyhole limpet, Diodora aspera
How did this made it onto the beach?
Inside surface, razor clam, Siliqua patula
Inside surface, fat gaper, Tresus capax
Rock scallop, Crassadoma gigantea – outer surface
Rock scallop, Crassadoma gigantea – inner surface
Consensus, chum parr, tossed ashore in the surf
Pyrosome
February 20, 2017
Purple-striped jelly, Chrysaora colorata; uncommon on northern Oregon beaches
Good sized ling cod egg mass, pretty sure
The wad
Pesky headland
Sea oats, probably, Nucella lamellosa eggs
Pyrosome, worse for wear
Plastic in the drift line
In the swash
A rainbow of marine debris; anybody know what that red hook is?
February 19, 2017 – Some days are too windy for beach combing.
February 11, 2017
Rock scallop, Crassadoma gigantea, top view
A feathery red algae and pelagic goose barnacles hitch a ride on an ocean drifter
If you know what this is, drop me a line
Crab buoys
Bull kelp, Nereocystis luetkeana
Lots of plastic and terrestrial material in the drift line
I don’t need to tell you who’s tracks these are…Emerita analoga
Patterns in the sand
Pyrosome, lots of baby Velella velella
lost gear
The lead line
glow stick
Rock scallop, Crassadoma gigantea, a view of the underside
From the port side
The wad, shotgun shell
Rough keyhole limpet Diodora aspera
Spin-N-Glow, winged drift bobber
February 10, 2017
Sea foam, a product of phytoplankton breakdown
Freshwater bobber
Plastic lighter
The wad, shotgun shell component
Large buoy at the base of the foredune
Lone elk tracks
Symmety
There will be no simple walk on the beach today
Tide line mostly terrestrial material and cellophane tube worm, Spichaetopterus costarum, casings
Wrack line loaded up with big wood
High tides and big surf mobilize drift logs
Beach grass, Ammophila on the foredune
Crab buoy #47823
Hagfish trap funnel
Bait jar lid – hey, that’s a full can of beer!
This fort’s glory days are in the past
