Bayocean

At one time or another, the resort town of Bayocean included everything listed below, as chronicled in Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon . Absolu...

For years I wondered about the posts visible during low tide running parallel to Dike Road and wider posts just barely visible above the mu...

The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI) recently published Coastal Flood Hazard Study, Tillamook County, Oregon ...

When a winter storm ripped a 3/4 mile wide gap between Cape Meares and Bayocean Spit on  November 13, 1952, the sand covered  oyster beds ...

The closure of one mile of the Cape Meares Loop Road in 2013, between the communities of Cape Meares and Oceanside, was caused by a landscap...

In Oregon Coastal Atlas I mentioned a web viewer set up by Tanya Haddad to view changes in Bayocean's shorelines from 1939 to 1964, usin...

1953 USACE  aerial photo of Bayocean from  a now-defunct Oregon Coastal Atlas web tool.  Anyone interested in Oregon's coast sho...

The dunes of the southern Oregon Coast are free of any vegetation, while Bayocean has some very large old spruce and pine on its northern, h...

The shape of Bayocean Peninsula has changed dramatically since the town was platted in 1907. At that time, the connection to Cape Meares wa...

While bushwhacking Bayocean's highlands looking for its highest point , I wondered how it had been formed. In researching that, I was su...

Jonathan Allan, a coastal geomorphologist with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries (DOGAMI), is leading the Oregon Beac...