A lovely day at the dunes a week or so ago. The dunes are a most interesting ecosystem--it seems you always find fascinating ecosystems in crappy environments, and a sand dune is a pretty crappy environment for a plant. The beach is also of interest, at low tide it's flat and well over a hundred meters from dunes to water.
This being a Pacific coast beach in 2013, there was plenty of garbage to be picked up. I hiked out with thirty pounds of fishing float and styrofoam and nylon rope on a stick, carried like a yoke. Brother M. & sweetie carried crammed-full knapsacks and bags of plastic bottles from Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and elsewhere. The beach is lovely, but it is so hard to see all the debris we have put there and not think of this. Warning--link will make you feel very, very bad.
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