Mile 340
South Jetty Columbia River, Fort Stevens SP
Clatsop County
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Longitude: -124.028495152630
- Motor vehicle travel is prohibited on the ocean shore between the hours of 12:01 p.m. and 12:00 midnight, from May 1 through September 15, from the south jetty of the Columbia River (46° 13.5216', Mile 340), southerly to the Peter Iredale Road (46° 10.6950', Mile 336).
2022
Have not done this walk in a long time due to work being done on south jetty. Looks the same.read more
There's a tree stump that is gradually being progressively exposed (see photo). I marked this with red paint. This should be an excellent opportunity to measure the rate of dune retreat. Wish I had thought about this a year or so ago when I first saw it. I've been monitoring...read more
2020
2019
Lots of Grey Whales spouting, as seen from the tower at Parking Lot C. Apparently some were there the night before, too.read more
All looks about the same. Much marine debris including plastic bottles, shoes, large hunks of mfg. wood, shell casings and much more.read more
Not much going on. No new apparently erosional issues. Except for some tire tracks little evidence of human activity. As always, I cleaned the beach as I walked.read more
King tide photos taken at a few locations (note photo captions).read more
2018
Vehicles have obviously been entering an area closed for nesting birds that extends from the So. Jetty for approx. 1 miles. I left a message for the ranger alerting him of the issue.read more
2017
No pictures of dead crabs at shoreline.read more
2015
This was actually taken up the Columbia at the Julia Butler Hansen NWR but I thought it would be of interest to folks here.There were hundreds of sea lions in the river. I believe they were following the smelt run: http://www.columbian.com/news/2015/feb/28/outdoors-survey-marine-mammals.... But the coolest thing was a group of...read more
