Friends of Olympic National Park now co-sponsors the annual Coast Cleanup on Saturday, April 23, 2011. Friends volunteers will meet at Ozette Campground at 8:30 am Saturday morning; many will camp out at Ozette on Friday night.
Friends has been invited by the Duk Point inholders to be their guests during the cleanup. They will meet us at 9 am at the Green Crow gate on Mainline Road, 1 mile north of Ozette Ranger Station, and escort our vehicles 4 miles up Mainline Road and 2 miles out Seafield Road and through the Park gate to Duk Point. These are one lane gravel roads, suitable for pickups and 4WD cars.
Duk Point lies in the heart of Olympic NP's northern wilderness beaches. Duk Point beaches run 2 miles north to Point of the Arches, at the south end of Shi Shi Beach, and 2 miles south to the Ozette River, just north of Cape Alava. Friends will be the only group with direct vehicle access to this central, otherwise inaccessible, stretch of wilderness beach. We plan to have at least 3 pickups and a dump trailer, able to carry more than 100 filled trash bags.
Duk Point is the only point on the Park's Northern Coastal wilderness between Rialto Beach and Sooes Beach with direct access to the beach. We expect this to be an ongoing annual activity for years to come.
Please plan to join us in this unique opportunity to make a big contribution to the success of the coast cleanup! If you can join us at Duk Point, please RSVP by e-mail to Rod Farlee.
