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small noaa logo Home | Drift Card Studies | Safe Seas 2006 | Montara

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Colored squares represent locations where drift cards were released. Colored dots represent locations where drift cards were found and reported to us.

Drift cards were found at the following locations:

Montara State Beach
Date Found Location Color Count
08.10.06 Montera Beach in Half Moon Bay, CA
Notes: I picked up three of the cards but there were about 20 more along the shoreline at Montera. All yellow drift cards were in excellent condition. Cool experiment!
Yellow 3
08.11.06 Montara State Beach
Notes: There was a lot of what looked like 1/2" wide packing tape washed up on the entire beach.
Yellow 1
08.11.06 Below the cliff at the Montera lighthouse.
Notes: There was another one in the drift that I couldn't get.
Yellow 4
08.11.06 Montara Lighthouse, and Montara State Beach. Yellow 3
08.11.06 South end of Montara State Beach in Montara, CA. Yellow 12
08.11.06 Montara State Beach, south of Pacifica.
Notes: We were there about 3:00 PM, but it was pretty high up the wash slope, so it must have come in with high tide. I saw another further down the beach, which I did not pick up.
Yellow 1
08.13.06 Montara Beach Yellow 1
08.14.06 at the south end of the sandy beach at the point Montara lighthouse in Montara, California
Notes: It was at 7 PM on 8/14/06, with a low tide, so the card probably was only there for at most a few hours.
Yellow 1
08.14.06 In the rocks directly beneath the Point Montara Lighthouse. Montara, CA Yellow 1
08.15.06 Found at Montara State Beach that is located below McNee Ranch Trail Head found in surf at 10:55 A.M. Tuesday August 15th at the South end of the beach
Notes: Cool, Man!--People!
Yellow 1
08.16.06 On a beach between Half Moon Bay and Pacifica.
Notes: The card is in good condition, with only the edges and corners having some paint chipped off.
Yellow 1
08.19.06 montara lighthouse pacific coast approximately 20 miles south of san francisco california Yellow 1
08.20.06 On the beach at Montara point Lighthouse Hostel.
Notes: My friend found one at the same spot the day before I did.
Yellow 1
08.23.06 Montara Beach; Found in a small cove just immediately south of Montara Beach, San Mateo County. (about 1/16 mile south of the southern point of Montara Beach); sometimes called Knox's Cove) Yellow 4
09.05.06 point montara lighthouse Yellow 1
09.11.06 montara lighthouse beach Yellow 6
09.17.06 Montara State Beach Yellow 1
09.18.06 Montara State Beach. Montara, CA
Notes: Card is in good condition. There is minimal wear on the edging.
Yellow 1
09.20.06 Rocky beach south of Montara State Beach, roughly continuation of 6th St at the ocean
Notes: Dates on cards: August 9, 2006--found within 10 feet of each other on a boulder-strewn beach where driftwood and plastic garbage from the sea regularly collects. Photo of one of the cards as sighted here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tobc/248614868/
Yellow 2
09.26.06 montara Yellow 1
09.27.06 about a 1/4 of a mile south of Montara Beach on the rocks in Montara, CA
Notes: There is nothing growing on the card. It is in pretty good shape except that the edges on all sides are slightly worn.
Yellow 1
10.21.06 Reef below Highway 1, approx. between 8th and 6th streets, Montara, CA, 94037 Yellow 2
10.22.06 in montara, across the road from the neighborhood mart on highway one and down the cliff and on the rocks in a tidepool
Notes: It has several blobs of smelly petroleum substance on it. I found it while fishing and I don't know how long it was there after it washed ashore. I plan to return to clean up the shoreline, as there is a lot of styrofoam and other debris still there (I always tote out more crap than I tote in; good karma maintenance...)--I also saved the card in case you need it.
Yellow 1
11.01.06 about 100 yards south of montara beach in the rocks
Notes: Where did the cards come from, and how are they being tracked, and what do you want me to do with them?
Yellow 1
01.07.07 Montara State Beach, CA.
Notes: Very interesting find.
Yellow 1
05.26.07 Montara State Beach
Notes: Where did it come from? and Why?
Yellow 1
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Gray Whale Cove State Beach (Devils Slide)
Date Found Location Color Count
08.10.06 Greywall Cove [by Devil's Slide] Yellow 1
08.12.06 Grey Whale Cove/Devil's Slide Beach Yellow 3
08.16.06 grey whale cove, montara state beach no organisms were growing on it.
Notes: I am curious to find out what the results of the study are.
Yellow 1
09.11.06 on the beach on the coast we call Devils Slide on the beach between the nudist beach and Montara beach
Notes: The drift card said August 9th.
Yellow 2
09.20.06 Gray Whale Cove in Montara State Beach, which is north of Half Moon Bay, California
Notes: The card was clean and in good shape.
Yellow 1
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