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Nehalem Bay State Park is a state park in the United States located on the Oregon Coast, near the communities of Nehalem and Manzanita on the Nehalem Spit, a sand spit west of Nehalem Bay. [ 2 ] Tillamook County transferred the land to the State of Oregon for a park in the 1930s.
South Jetty is a state park in Newport, Oregon, U.S. . The park is administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, and adjacent to South Beach State Park.Both are south of the jetties, which form the entrance to Yaquina Bay, one of Oregon's major fishing and whale watching ports.
Many species of birds live in the varied habitats of the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The South Jetty area includes beach, marsh, and coastal wetlands where the tundra swan, marsh wren, Canada goose, yellow-rumped warbler, red-tailed hawk, sanderling, long-billed curlew, dunlin, and least sandpiper make their home.
Nehalem Bay at the mouth of the Nehalem River on the Pacific Ocean. Nehalem Bay is a bay formed by the confluence of the Nehalem River with the Pacific Ocean in northern Oregon, United States. It is Oregon's fifth-largest estuary. [1] The main tributary of Nehalem Bay is the Nehalem River. Nehalem Bay drains an area of more than 850 square ...
Nehalem was the location for the 2000 HGTV Dream Home Contest, which awarded a furnished home and an automobile. [16] The Nehalem Bay Dune Site, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is a prehistoric site in the Nehalem vicinity dating to 1310 A.D. The exact location is restricted to protect the site.
A schooner that was stranded on Nehalem Spit, refloated and scrapped. Manzanita: Gem: 15 February 1904: A schooner that ran aground on the beach near the Tillamook Bay north jetty. Barview: Peter Iredale United Kingdom: 25 October 1906: The barque's remains can still be seen. Fort Stevens: Gerald C. 10 May 1907
In May 1902 there was a rate war on Tillamook Bay between the Nehalem Transportation Company, owners of Vosburg, and the Pacific Navigation Company, owners of the steamer Sue H. Elmore, [44] As of May 13, 1902, the rate war had resulted in both companies running Vosburg and Elmore twice a week between Astoria and Tillamook, which was new for ...
North Jetty on the left and South Jetty on the right at the mouth of Sebastian Inlet in Florida from the Indian River to the Atlantic Ocean.. Jetties have been constructed on each side of the outlet river of some of the rivers flowing into the Baltic, with the objective of prolonging the scour of the river and protecting the channel from being shoaled by the littoral drift along the shore.