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A rip tide, or riptide, is a strong offshore current that is caused by the tide pulling water through an inlet along a barrier beach, at a lagoon or inland marina where tide water flows steadily out to sea during ebb tide. It is a strong tidal flow of water within estuaries and other enclosed tidal areas. The riptides become the strongest where ...
The water stops rising, reaching a local maximum called high tide. Sea level falls over several hours, revealing the intertidal zone; ebb tide. Oscillating currents produced by tides are known as tidal streams or tidal currents. The moment that the tidal current ceases is called slack water or slack tide. The tide then reverses direction and is ...
A month after the first round of seasonal king tides walloped the Oregon Coast, a second round of exceptionally high tides are forecast for the Pacific Northwest. King tides return to Oregon Coast ...
After living in San Francisco, California and Astoria, Oregon, Gilbert moved to Seaside where he had a beach cottage (built in 1885). Gilbert was a real estate developer who donated land to the City of Seaside for its one-and-a-half-mile-long Promenade, or "Prom," along the Pacific beach. In 1892, he added to his beach cottage.
Southward view from Ecola State Park, Northern Oregon Coast Map of the Oregon Coast. The Oregon Coast is a coastal region of the U.S. state of Oregon.It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to its west and the Oregon Coast Range to the east, and stretches approximately 362 miles (583 km) from the California state border in the south to the Columbia River in the north.
The Oregon Beach Bill (House Bill 1601, 1967) was a piece of landmark legislation in the U.S. state of Oregon, passed by the 1967 session of the Oregon Legislature.It established public ownership of land along the Oregon Coast from the water up to sixteen vertical feet above the low tide mark.
Communities founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as seaside resorts for summer visitors, often promoted by railroad interests and other speculators. Not every coastal settlement is a seaside resort. Many coastal places were founded as logging, fishing, or port communities.
The tidal-effect is observed as far as Myrtle Point, some 28 to 30 miles (45 to 48 km) upriver. The head of tide is 41 miles (66 km) upriver from the mouth at Bandon. But some salt water does enter across the bar. The salt water intrusion was once minor. Today, however, sometimes traces of salinity appear only a few miles below the town of ...