Spectacular Drives Ocean tides and currents deliver to beachcombers a wide variety of treasures along the shores of the Pacific coast. Each high tide and especially those following a good storm bring a new supply of beachcombing bounty to the Northwest coast's beaches.
Beachcombers are as varied as the objects they seek and find.
In 1990, a shipping container of 80,000 Nike athletic shoes was lost at sea. Shoes in a variety of sizes and styles began washing up all along the coast. Cannon Beach resident Steve McLeod coordinated an effort for beachcombers all along the coast to match-up their wet, but quite wearable single shoes. Since then, a similar effort was organized to match up hockey gloves. Truth is, you never know what you might find.