I have been to Bandon numerous times as well as other beaches in Oregon and California. I know that the beaches are fairly empty most of the time. There may be a few people here and there, but I have never been to a beach that could be considered packed. The signs were certainly interesting and the dead birds are rather upsetting. I was in Crescent City, CA about two weeks ago, walking along the main strip of coastline. I know that I was extremely surprised by all of the dead crabs. It is common to see a few, but on this day they were EVERYWHERE! I even commented about it to my husband, telling him that I had never walked on that beach before and been worried about tripping on a dead crab. There were so many of them that a lot of them were still intact. The seagulls were around, looking very stuffed, and I took it to mean that there were so many dead crabs that they could not eat all of them. It is normally extremely rare to see a washed up crab that has not been completely gutted by the gulls, but the majority on that day were intact.