Mile 191 Report

Human activity consisted of people visiting Devil's Churn-area trails (Photo). No significant concerns or actions required. Most people were walking on the south side of the churn with 3 young couples walking from the immediate north side.Slight patch of hillside movement (photo). It didn't look recent. Interesting lava/basalt tube (photo) protruding from the shore hillside and large boulders scattered in proximity at the bottom of Cape Perpetua. Noticed neat, holes on a basalt ridge on the shoreline (photo), core sampling? Nice walk but unable to access northern .6 through private property. I will log in at a future date, perhaps on a minus tide where access across sea channels is more practical, and continue with coastwatch mile 192. I think the .4 mi showed a healthy ecosytem but this is just my observation with little reference to past observations or surveys and observed at a fairly high tide. Large assembly of purple urchins found in a ocean accessible channel with adjoining tide pool (photo).There wasn't much in the way of a drift line but any accumulation in the rocks or pools was all organic, no plastic or other garbage noticed except for to chunks of Styrofoam. By the way, on the return trip walking back around Devil's Churn I noticed in the churn froth a noticable concentrated purple foam gathered (photo).Nice day!! Looking forward to covering more territory when the tide is low. Access will be difficult due to private property access issues and delicate shore hillsides susceptible to erosion. Visual scanning of the rocky basalt headlands didn't indicate much life but walking the rocky spray line, channels and pools showed a diverse and complete ecosystem that needs to be observed up close. (photo)