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MILE 245 on 3/14/10   -   LVOELKER LOCATION Lincoln  •  Roads End Beach, Wayside, Logan Creek CONDITIONS Sunday 11:30 AM  •  Sunny  •  54° F  •  Wind: Calm/Light  •  Tide: 5 ft HUMANS People: 37  •  Dogs: 11 ACTIVITIES Walking/running: 32  •  Playing in sand: 5  •  Photography: 2 CONCERNS DISTURBANCES VEHICLES Cars/Trucks parking: 23  •  RVs/Buses parking: 1 ACTIV.COMMENTS NOTABLE WILDLIFE DEAD BIRDS Total: 0 STRANDED Total: 0 FISH & INVERTS DRIFTLINE Kelp/Algae  •  Wood pieces  •  Plastic pellets  •  Ocean-based debris  •  Styrofoam Many plastic bottle with oriental character writen labels NEW DEVELOPMENT MODIFICATIONS NATURAL CHANGES Erosion of vegetated foredune COMMENTS SUMMARY Beautiful day, tide coming in, with many people walking the beach. Despite the high number of dogs, for the first time it seems like all the owners were picking up! Again, so much plastic. I picked up a garbage bag full of large bits: bottles, bottle caps, line, tubing, sandals, sieves, parts of buckets, oval foam fish floats (blue and cream, about 7x4x1") and glass bottles. Again, the beach was strewn with millions of bits of plastic. A tourist remarked: "It's just getting worse, isn't it?" Another had picked up two very large, blue containers, one a rectangular box looking like a gas can. And so I thought: If we, as a society, can dispense "doggie bags" at beach entry points, why not have a dispenser with Solve bags for picking up trash? OBSERVER Lvoelker EMAIL   •  REPORT PUBLISHED 3/15/10 1:44 PM PHOTOS  PRINT       BACK TO COASTWATCH HOME