Beverly Beach Duo LbNA #18317 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 26, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Beverly Beach |
| County: | Lincoln |
| State: | Oregon |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | artTrekker  |
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| Found by: | green_armyman |
| Last found: | Aug 18, 2008 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFaFFFFFr |
| Last edited: | Sep 26, 2005 |
Thanks Camp Violet for all the help!
These two boxes can be done in any order, as they are in different areas of Beverly Beach State Park (north of Newport).
Box 1--The Beach **2008--GONE**
Bridge construction has all but destroyed the original location of this box, but heroic Camp Violet found it just in time, and have given it a new home, and a new logbook. So it should be all set for summer visitors.
***update fall 2007: many reports that this box is gone***
Camp Violet's new directions to Box #1:
The box is hidden next to the Yurt meeting hall by the day use parking area. Seekers could either start from the day use parking lot or come past the giant roots on the trail from the campground. If you look to the left of the ramp leading into the yurt you can see the wooden posts holding up the deck. The box is hidden under a rock behind the shortest post closest to the ramp. There is a little grassy hill there so I just sat down like I was taking a break in the sun so that no one would see what I was up to. It's not nearly as cool a hiding place as the original (aT's note: the original was a little iffy; I'm sure this is a fine alternative), but it's safe from construction and you can hear and smell the ocean from there.
Box 2--The Nature Trail, also with new log book
The Spencer Creek Nature Trail starts just beyond the Visitor Center (which has many references on local natural history), near Campsite C-3.
What makes an octopus tree? When the old growth trees were logged, large stumps were left. Birds dropped seeds on them, some of which took root in the decaying stump. As the trees grew, their large roots often took hold around the big stump, which eventually decayed, leaving the big new tree or trees high above their "octopus" roots. They're very cool!
To the box: Take the trail. These trees have it Made in the Shade. Just up the trail, on your left, a spruce and hemlock are very cozy together. If this pair is 6 o'clock and the hemlock ahead of you on the trail with inverted medusa roots is 12 o'clock, then at about 2 o'clock is a somewhat leaning hemlock with lateral roots. Behind a root, under bark, is a little cone. Please be discreet & re-hide well!
These two boxes can be done in any order, as they are in different areas of Beverly Beach State Park (north of Newport).
Box 1--The Beach **2008--GONE**
Bridge construction has all but destroyed the original location of this box, but heroic Camp Violet found it just in time, and have given it a new home, and a new logbook. So it should be all set for summer visitors.
***update fall 2007: many reports that this box is gone***
Camp Violet's new directions to Box #1:
The box is hidden next to the Yurt meeting hall by the day use parking area. Seekers could either start from the day use parking lot or come past the giant roots on the trail from the campground. If you look to the left of the ramp leading into the yurt you can see the wooden posts holding up the deck. The box is hidden under a rock behind the shortest post closest to the ramp. There is a little grassy hill there so I just sat down like I was taking a break in the sun so that no one would see what I was up to. It's not nearly as cool a hiding place as the original (aT's note: the original was a little iffy; I'm sure this is a fine alternative), but it's safe from construction and you can hear and smell the ocean from there.
Box 2--The Nature Trail, also with new log book
The Spencer Creek Nature Trail starts just beyond the Visitor Center (which has many references on local natural history), near Campsite C-3.
What makes an octopus tree? When the old growth trees were logged, large stumps were left. Birds dropped seeds on them, some of which took root in the decaying stump. As the trees grew, their large roots often took hold around the big stump, which eventually decayed, leaving the big new tree or trees high above their "octopus" roots. They're very cool!
To the box: Take the trail. These trees have it Made in the Shade. Just up the trail, on your left, a spruce and hemlock are very cozy together. If this pair is 6 o'clock and the hemlock ahead of you on the trail with inverted medusa roots is 12 o'clock, then at about 2 o'clock is a somewhat leaning hemlock with lateral roots. Behind a root, under bark, is a little cone. Please be discreet & re-hide well!