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We started from Cavelero County Park and walked south toward
Camano Country Club. It was a beautiful sunny day with a north wind
keeping us comfortable as we walked. Don uses the offset tactic when he's
not able to walk along a bulkhead. It's interesting to watch him when he's
measuring a ramp. If he can walk all the way around a ramp at a low tide,
he squares the corners, but if it's a high tide and he can't get out into
the water to complete the measurement, he makes a tapered /\ mark at the
water mark. He's got the body action down pat to make the /\ with his GPS.
Walking on an all cobble beach, pretty straight away, no hardening
so just a nice walk on a beautiful day.
Don spots a 55 gallon drum that had been full of latex paint up
against the base of a sheer bank (50'?)
One huge rock 5x5x5' on the beach seems to have caught one large
log and then lots of others got hooked up over time and a large triangle
of wood covers most of the beach 200x200x100.
Two adolescent eagles are spooked as we approached. Now sandy
beach.
We reach Camano Country Club and climb across the large rocks that
rim the north edge of the inlet. The tide was high enough so that we
couldn't walk on the beach there. After the rocks was a wood bulkhead and
noticed and recorded 12 old pilings in front of the club house. We
continued south, no more bluff here.
Met our first resident, first property south of CCC, who was
curious about who we were (Don was about to measure an offset from her
bulkhead out to the soft sand) and Don explained who we were and although
she hadn't heard about the program she was very supportive.
We came across a man-made grid of about 10 logs cabled into the
sand perpendicular to the water and with 2-3 cross logs per section. The
grid was settled into soft sand and appeared to be doing its job.
Back to cobbles in front of a long bulkhead
We approached a new looking bulkhead and a homeowner came out. She
told me that it was a new bulkhead put in last year. Her property was
manicured and she mentioned that she and three of her neighbors had pulled
out all the beach grasses in front of the bulkhead, but that her one
neighbor 'refused' to remove the grasses (which I could see) in front of
the other neighbor's house. She had not heard about our program, but she
had another neighbor who was very interested in 'environmental stuff' and
she would tell him about us. I judged the situation and didn't think it
was the time to discuss leaving native grasses alone.
Noticed a 20' long piece of 16" black plastic pipe. Inside it was
insulation and a 10-12" diameter center pipe. Had no idea what it was for
but it was just resting on a bunch of logs.
Stopped at the end of Camano Country Club Beach No. 2.
A really nice walk--also sadly observed very little beach glass!
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