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Latest Mile Reports
Mile 314 - Cannon Beach, Ecola Creek, Chapman Beach south
December 2, 2022 - 1:30pm - tabeag
Chilly winter day with few visitors on the beach. Common mergansers, buffleheads, and mallards swimming in the river. A female bufflehead swimming in the ocean in the sand bridge between Chapman Point and Bird Rock 1.
Mile 196 - Vingie Creek, San Marine Beach south
December 1, 2022 - 9:45am - Pardiatthebeach
King tides have washed up to the bluffs but no erosion. Sand is still built up high on the beach, several feet at least. Very little man made debris.
Mile 179 - Heceta Head Lighthouse, Devils Elbow SP, Cape Creek
November 29, 2022 - 2:00pm - ThomasK
It was a cold, windy, day with chance of rain at any moment. Not many people ventured out to watch the ocean or walk up the trail past the Heceta Assistant Keepers dueplex (now a B&B and interpretive center), past the gift shop, and up to the lighthouse. Beach still...