weird things on the coast

north of seaside there's a shipwreck on the beach near the dunes. the skeletal prow is what you see and my first thought was that it was a smallish fishing boat. then i noticed the smokestack. further down the beach there were tall metal posts sticking out of the sand. it must've been a really big ship. it's kinda surreal to see a shipwreck surrounded by brightly clothed vacationers.

i also found a couple of pieces of red sand-dollar. i didn't know they came in that color. hopefully, that's not some nasty chemical adaptation.

also there's a place called "klootchy." haha.

-s

addendum: the ship is the wreck of the Peter Iredale that ran aground in 1906. All 25 crew and the 2 stowaways were saved. What I thought was a smokestack was actually one of the masts! (It was a 285-foot, four-masted barque.)